[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - net neutrality

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> To constrain the conversation
> a little bit, I'd be talking about
> home service here.  Others might
> be talking about their place of work,
> where the cost picture can be yet
> different.

Only in terms of how much money they have available to spend, and
sometimes not even there. If you want to divide the market into two
players*, "consumers" and "businesses", you need to recognize that
ISPs which cater to one group will offer different services than what
cater to the other group. Getting enterprise services for consumer
prices is not fiscally sustainable, and Net Neutrality has been all
about forcing enterprise ISP properties on consumer ISPs.

* And this alone is a false dichotomy; they both have to deal with the
same thing upstream, the distinction is how they manage to pay for it
by charging downstream. Your real problem is that you see yourself as
somehow different from a business in terms of options.

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