The division between wireless and wired seems really artificial to me. Yes, the current state of technology means a megabyte over air is a good margin more expensive than over wire, but I don't believe this is worth codifying into law.<p>Personally, I'd like to see a restriction on what can be called "Internet". An internet connection in my mind implies neutrality. If your network only provides a subset of the content on the internet, you shouldn't be able to call it "Internet", but instead call it something obviously lesser, much in the same spirit that requires Cheez Wiz be called "cheese product".
So what exactly does google <i>do</i> that justifies their our-shit-doesn't-stink reputation? It seems like they behave exactly like any other self-interested major corporation when the chips are down. They were for censorship in China before they were against it. They were for net neutrality until Verizon offered to cut them a deal. Are there any cases where "don't be evil" made a bit of difference on a non-trivial issue?
Getting really tired of conspiritorial hand flapping posts from people who have no telecom / network engineering perspective.<p>I give both of these companies some credit for using their leadership positions to at least offer a framework to the industry and public at large - something the FCC and all the other carriers heretofore have been completely unable to do.<p>Of course that doesn't jive with the whole, "they're trying to destory the internet" meme.
It doesn't sit well with me that this discussion is seemingly being led by corporate, rather than public, interests. I would like to see Julius Genachoski reign the debate in and push a policy through.<p>It also should be pointed out that Google's proposal is a _proposal_ and not yet written policy.
Doesn't seem like it - managed services will be handled different ways by different ISPs - which I would argue would allow (eventually) for smaller ISPs to say "well yeah, we offer x, y, and z and AT&T doesn't do that" and have a decent market share if x, y, and z are widely demanded.<p>Even the article's writer says that "after the conference call and reading the agreement, I’m not sure there’s much to say beyond the fact that this agreement basically keeps the network neutrality situation the same."
Tech companies? what exactly did those tech companies do during this whole debate, nothing, they stood idly by and let Google try to do something, they have only themselves to blame not Google.