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To: fred g who wrote (15611)6/23/2006 4:44:35 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 46821
 
I think a simple way to cut through all the farce is to note this:

Cable and Telecoms already charge content providers a higher price for the higher bandwidth they use. So all their talk about consumers being left with the bag to subsidize the big corporations like Google is pure BS. Google pays for its own bandwidth.

The real issue is that teclcos want to prevent consumers from accessing cheap voice over ip. They see that Skype for example let's you call across the world for pennies and they don't like it. By modifying the QoS, and playing with the time in transit, they can make it such that the quality is too poor for VoIP but ok for email. And that is what they are really after. Of course they are not coming out and saying it, rather they claim to be fighting for cheap prices for the consumers...now really, when was the last time a TelCo really cared about protecting the consumers?

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