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To: tech101 who wrote (14668)	4/18/2006 6:50:49 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Hi Tech101. The Internet isn't breaking down. Although, I have read in several places recently that there is now an end in sight to much of the excess lit capacity that was once thought to be a fiber optic bandwidth "glut". What do you find yourself experiencing? FAC

To: tech101 who wrote (14668)	4/18/2006 7:45:00 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 46821

Practically everyone I've talked to about broadband says their service has progressively degraded. That's exactly why we need some form of net neutrality regs that are at a minimum formed around a requirement for the marketplace to develop in short order (and the FCC to enforce, because there really is no one else) clear, meaningful disclosure of what the BB providers are selling you. Until we have that, there is no basis to even complain, since they never promised anything, and therefore didn't violate anything. As long as you can get 1.5Mbps download speed for 2 microseconds at 3AM, they are meeting their "requirement." Keeping it ambiguous like it is now, plays into the hands of the "Progress&Freedom Foundation types," who say no regs are needed because there's no evidence of a problem. There will forever be no evidence of a problem when the problem itself is undefined. There certainly are a lot of complaints (I guess those don't count as evidence), but no place to take them. Can't allow an oversubscribed network to be a loophole to violate "net neutrality" broadly across the whole connection. The current net neutrality debate, as it appears in bills from congress anyway, is focused on "application discrimination." Passing laws to protect from that still allows the loophole, and still allows the same net effect.