Yep, FCC Chairman was full of crap

[DJ13]

Remember this?

Wheeler says FCC won't allow Internet 'slow lane'

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation's top telecommunications regulator defended his latest proposal to protect an open Internet, warning cable companies that manipulating data traffic on their networks for profit would not be tolerated.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler told The Cable Show on Wednesday that the so-called net neutrality rules he's proposed won't allow Internet service providers to push most users onto a "slow lane" so others who pay for priority access can have superior service.

"Prioritizing some traffic by forcing the rest of the traffic into a congested lane won't be permitted under any proposed open Internet rule," he said. "If someone acts to divide the Internet between 'haves' and 'have-nots,' we will use every power at our disposal to stop it."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=792944


Well........

Major U.S. Internet Providers Accused of Deliberately Slowing Traffic
May 6, 2014


Five major internet service providers in the US and one in Europe have been accused of abusing their market share to interfere with the flow of the internet for end users. The accusations come from Level 3, a communications company that helps connect large-scale ISPs like Comcast or AT&T to the rest of the internet. According to the company, these six unnamed ISPs are deliberately degrading the quality of internet services using the Level 3 network, in an attempt to get Level 3 to pay them a fee for additional traffic caused by services like Netflix, a process known as paid peering.

"They are not allowing us to fulfill the requests their customers make for content."

"They are deliberately harming the service they deliver to their paying customers," writes Level 3’s Mark Taylor. "They are not allowing us to fulfill the requests their customers make for content." While Taylor doesn’t name names, he describes the six offenders as "large broadband consumer networks with a dominant or exclusive market share in their local market." He adds that "in countries or markets where consumers have multiple broadband choices (like the UK) there are no congested peers." He also says that Level 3 won’t be paying up. "Our policy is to refuse to pay arbitrary charges to add interconnection capacity," he explains.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/major-u-s-internet-providers-accused-of-deliberately-84924844214.html

[msongs]

1. internet should be regulated and run as a public utility nt

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Now, that's an answer.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I am more and more happy with my lil backwater DSL ISP.

Bandwith makes streaming difficult, but that's ok, I have ZERO download caps, pay only 40.00 a month for it,
few problems with traffic congestion.

[KT2000]

3. If I understand it correctly,

your local ISP is paying for access to lines from a telephone company. That is the way it is with my local ISP. We will not be immune, in fact we may be in trouble since we are not favored customers for a phone company. We may be among the first to find ourselves in the slow lane.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. My isp IS the telephone company.n/t

[Scuba]

6. Your ISP doesn't own all the telephone lines in the world.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I see what you are getting at.

Still, after suffering under Comcast for many years, I am content.
Don't have much choice, actually..out here in the boonies, we have very limited options for media hook ups.

[Scuba]

9. I hear ya. I upgraded to RF from satellite a couple years ago.

Still relatively slow and expensive, but much better than the dish.

[historylovr]

4. K & R

[TheKentuckian]

8. Dude is selling snake oil. He is likely in no better position to dictate any such thing

than he was with the failed rules the courts just blew away and refuses to make the data transporters a common carrier.

[sabrina 1]

10. He's a former Cable Corp. Lobbyist with a huge conflict of interest.

Naturally if you're lobbying for your bosses, you can't be completely honest. He's just doing the job he's supposed to do. I'm sure he doesn't care what those of us who are not paying him care.

If anyone did, he would be fired and replaced with someone who isn't blinded by any conflict of interest.

But I must stop myself from caring about issues. All it means is I don't love some politician or another which is what we are supposed to do.

Trivializing issues has become a game and if you don't play that game, someone is going to accuse you of CARING ABOUT ISSUES rather than your favorite politician.

[warrprayer]

11. this ^^^^^^^ n/t