The idea of net neutrality has some basis in the idea that in order to have the internet, one needs two components. One is a line, and the other is an internet provider. This article talks about telephone companies and how they relate to the idea of infrastructure. Last mile has to do with the telephone and cable. The advent of broadband technology broad a change in the way the internet was thought about. Internet providers now want to discriminate between Internet applications and charge service providers (Google being an example). With the rise of net-neutrality, it would become illegal to discriminate between internet applications.
Gone would be the days of an open access policy. This applied to the telephone companies, but with the rise of this legislation, broadband companies might not have this open access policy. There is a section in the article discussing SBC users. They want to use the internet pipes of a user for free, event though the user has to pay for it, a lot of SBC users are not liking this too much. This article talks about service tiers, which talk about different forms of payment/ revenue to keep costs low. I believe Time Warner cable’s service might be an example of a tier. As of right now, according to the article, neutrality is not that widespread, but if legislation passes it will have to become widespread. The article discusses the new internet, which would apply anti-discrimination on internet applications. This would be a more fair use of internet services.
Should internet providers discriminate against internet applications, or should the neutrality law be set into motion?
The Last Mile
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Yes, it would level the playing field and make it fair.
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I don't think the neutrality law should be set into motion, the cost will go up too much. Although, I don't think it is fair if people such as SBC users are using other peoples "pipers" for free.
ReplyDeleteThe neutrality law would make it a lot more expensive for people to visit the websites that they want. I do not think that the law should be set into motion.
ReplyDeleteThe neutrality law should be set into motion to keep our open access internet available. Discriminating against different internet applications will just lead to higher charges and other stipulations affecting our internet use.
ReplyDeleteIt is extremely important to keep the internet neutrality in full motion. Without free access to many different websites we are cutting off our simple form of information sharing.
ReplyDeleteI think providers could/should discriminate now (I am sure some already do) if there are legal issues at hand as it is their service and they don't want to be affiliated with something that is illegal.
ReplyDeleteI think the neutrality law would make things fair, but at the same time I do not want to have to pay more for the cites that I want to go to.
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