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Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:20:42 -0800
In a message written on Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:08:53PM -0500, Joe Provo wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:03:27PM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote: [snip]If the FCC wanted to do something useful they would look at the combined ratio of all /customers/ of an ISP, and then require their peering policy to allow for around 2x of that.[snip] ...or maybe not get involved in peering policies at all? DO we really want regulatory oversight here, happily driving traffic away from the US?
I will be the first to advocate the government use minimal to no regulation where there is active competition and consumer choice, and thus folks can "vote with their dollars". Broadband in the US is not in that boat. Too many consumers have a "choice" of a single provider. The vast majority of the rest have the "choice" of two providers. We make these monopoly or duoploies come begging to local government to get approval for rate increases and channel lineup changes, they appear to be demonstrating that we need to do the same on the Internet side. I also fail to see how this drives traffic away from the US, it's not like Ma Citizen in Des Moines Iowa is going to move to Tokyo to get Gigabit service for $18. The only reason it looks like traffic is going away from the US is the rest of the world is leaving us behind, more bandwidth for less money. The current experiment going on in Australia is very interesting to watch.... -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Leo Bicknell (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Jack Bates (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Seth Mattinen (Nov 29)
- RE: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions Ben Butler (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Jon Lewis (Nov 30)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Justin M. Streiner (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Owen DeLong (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Christopher Morrow (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Leo Bicknell (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Joe Provo (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Leo Bicknell (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Jeff Wheeler (Nov 30)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Christopher Morrow (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 29)
- Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 29)
- Re: Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] John Curran (Nov 30)
- Re: Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] Owen DeLong (Nov 30)
- Re: Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] Leo Bicknell (Nov 30)
- Re: Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] Matthew Petach (Nov 30)
- Re: Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] Leo Bicknell (Nov 30)