To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (14350 ) 3/26/2006 12:36:53 AM From: tech101 Read Replies (1) | Respond to "Customer Tiering" + "Provider Tiering" "vehemently oppose Whitacre teiring as bad for democracy, bad for business, and, in the end, bad for the broadband providers themselves. " "One of the two Democrats on the FCC, Jonathan Adelstein, said network neutrality could be resolved with more bandwidth. "You don't need to worry about priority access if you've got 100 megabits going to the home," he said. "Hopefully as we get more capacity those kinds of questions become much less significant." QoS“Customer tiering” is when a provider sells different speeds at different costs, e.g., A 1.5 mbps pipe to the home costs $29/month, a 5 mbps costs $50/month, and a 100 mbps costs $100. The customer chooses a speed and pays for it, even though the pipe could provide higher speed. But all the bits coming down or going up the pipe are treated equally by the ISP.
