Battle for the internet

[DaveW]

I thought as internet users you lot should be kept abreast of this development happening overseas..... the future of the entire interweb and websites like this one are at stake.

Click here (http://www.publicaddress.net/default,2936.sm) :mumble: :mumble: :mumble: :mumble:

[PsychO!1]

Not sure what the trail condition at riverhead have to do with the internet....maybe you posted the wrong link.

[fluff]

I think he was pointing out that there are far better things to be doing than arguing about stuff here...

[PsychO!1]

Then maybe he should be out riding his bike, instead of posting stuff in here.

[Transcend]

I think the Op should go post somewhere else, and be a troll there.

[DaveW]

Humble apologys.... had copied the wrong tab on browser.
the correct link is HERE!! (http://www.publicaddress.net/default,2936.sm) :banghead:


original post edited now too. ;)

[DaveW]

I think he was pointing out that there are far better things to be doing than arguing about stuff here...


Ah how I wish.... I was just a tard making a rushed last min post before heading out the door to a weekend away racing at lake Taupo. :(

[valve bouncer]

Surprise, surprise. Big business wants to bend us all over the table. F*ckers.

[BurlyShirley]

I heard theyre going to start charging 10 cents per email too!

[LordOpie]

Surprise, surprise. Big business wants to bend us all over the table. F*ckers.
those cvnts!

[fluff]

Anyone wanna buy my Betamax player? Or my Wellfleet routers?

[valve bouncer]

those cvnts!
Are cvnts anything like cunts?

[blue]

Doubtful. I think you'd have too many alternative ISPs spring up in such a case, as well as companies like Google...

[DaveW]

Wrong it's not the ISP it's the teleco's that own the phone lines and exchanges..... I think?

[fluff]

Wrong it's not the ISP it's the teleco's that own the phone lines and exchanges..... I think?
The major tier 1 ISPs are also Telcos - think MCI, AT&T, Global Crossing, BT, Telefonica etc.

They need a business model to recoup their investment; charging for different levels of service already exists though presently it is used primarily for VPN traffic rather than 'internet' traffic (which generally scavenges available bandwidth). It is their networks that make up much of the Internet, and their investment, so why should they not charge? It's free-market economics in action.

If the situation reaches the point where non-preferential traffic degrades to the point where it cannot function then the ISP/Telco in question has far bigger capacity issues to deal with (and would need to do so in order to stay in business). Furthermore there is very little reason to expect that enhanced services will be carried outside of the individual provider contracted by the data owner.

This is not that big a deal.

[Transcend]

All the tier 1 ISPs are telco's but one....Google. Google has been on a spree buying up hundreds of miles of dark fiber as of late. Anytime now we will see them burst onto the scene.