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Originally Posted by whell

IMHO, you don't need to drop restrictive network management regulations, since the market is on its way to taking care of this itself. As more broadband options become available in more markets, and as more content that is currently captive to cable becomes available on competing content providers - and this is truly more about the delivery of content than it is about download speeds - the issue of blocking, throttling and network management will become far less relevant.

I don't see how you can divorce content delivery from download speeds. High transfer rate is essential for things like Netflix, for gaming and for many, many business uses like HF trading. 4G LTE is sloooooooow, around 7 or 8 Mbsp and satellite is very fast but expensive and a heavy rain will knock it out.

Be that as it may, whatever the technology, it's still going to be provided by an ISP and, therefore, throttling, blocking and other forms of restricting access are still possibilities unless there is regulation, the dreaded R word, prventing it.

John