Re: Two Tiered Internet

[Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell () gmail com>]

And not by offering you anything you might want to buy, either, but by
setting up wanky little tollbooths.

On 12/15/05, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> Bingo.
>
> What they are really saying is:
>
> "We're _telling_ you that you need it because we need new
> ways to generate additional revenue."
>
> ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> - ferg
>
>
> -- Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell () gmail com> wrote:
>
> The whole QoS/2 tier Internet thing I find deeply, deeply
> suspicious...here in the mobile space, everyone is getting
> obsessed by IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and explaining to
> each other that they need it so they can offer "Better QoS,
> like the subscribers want". What they really mean, I suspect,
> is killing third party applications that compete with their
> own. IMS=I Mash Skype. And, I suspect, "QoS" for SBC
> customer broadband will mean "the speed we advertise so
> long as you are paying us for VoIP/video/whatever, shite
> if you aren't".
>
> [snip]
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/