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Originally Posted by whell

Streaming video is more demanding - and requires more capacity management - than sending and email or browsing web sites like this. "bits are bits" rules will make it more difficult - and yes, less profitable - to not only manage a network but also to host certain types of content - like streaming video or audio (particularly high res audio).

So what? The same is true for telephony. DSL is more resource-hungry than voice. Of course, the telelcoms want to change that too.

From your linked article: "Most phone companies are transitioning their networks to Internet-based systems from copper-wire systems."

So, hey presto! Telephone service is no longer a utility under Title 2 but an "information service". Sneaky....... verrrry sneaky!

Are you in favor of ISPs being able to restrict or block content based on their bandwidth usage? To charge you a separate fee for Netflix? or charge
Netflix more so that they have to raise your prescription price?

Also, are you in favor of these new laws that make it illegal for governments to offer public broadband service as Chattanooga, TN and Cedar Falls, IA have done? I think laws such as this have been passed in around 20 places.

These local broadband ISPs have world class connectivity, around 1,000 Mbps. On the other hand, Comcast offers service at a pathetic 200 Mbps in freakin' San Francisco, the "capital of the internet". Obviously, the reason for these laws is to keep affordable state of the art broadband out of areas where Comcast or Time Warner are offering shit service at high prices. So much for the free market.

John