http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/02/07/net-neutrality-hearings-begin/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:32:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/02/07/net-neutrality-hearings-begin/#comment-1057 Anonymous Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:52:26 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=1298#comment-1057 Net Neutrality is a red herring. The real issue is looking at the econmic foolhardiness of the adversarial relationship between the access provider and the content provider. Look at retail businesses where wholesalers, distributors, and retailers work in a well-established channel model. Why is the net any different. I put together a fairly long post about this today which tries to do service to the opposite viewpoint: <a href="http://garywiz.typepad.com/trial_by_fire/2006/02/network_neutral.html" rel="nofollow">Net work Neutrality Counter-Point</a>. Net Neutrality is a red herring. The real issue is looking at the econmic foolhardiness of the adversarial relationship between the access provider and the content provider. Look at retail businesses where wholesalers, distributors, and retailers work in a well-established channel model. Why is the net any different.
I put together a fairly long post about this today which tries to do service to the opposite viewpoint: Net work Neutrality Counter-Point.

]]> http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/02/07/net-neutrality-hearings-begin/#comment-1056 François Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:45:39 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=1298#comment-1056 What is more irrational about this Net Neutrality proceeding in the U.S.A. is that that there is absolutely no chance of a similar debate taking place here in Canada under the CRTC's administration. With proper mandatory unbundling of local loops, sold to competitors above costs and a reasonable mark-up, there is simply no ability for any incumbent carrier to argue that "Google's unduly riding free". If anything else, the current proceeding at the CRTC opposing a coalition of Quebec-based ISPs and Bell Canada on the issue of capping the mark-up for ILEC/MSO unbundled facilities to the minimum level which incumbents satisfy themselves with for their own retail operations demonstrates the size of the canyon separating the state-of-the-art of regulatory proceedings in the U.S.A vs Canada. -=Francois=- What is more irrational about this Net Neutrality proceeding in the U.S.A. is that that there is absolutely no chance of a similar debate taking place here in Canada under the CRTC's administration. With proper mandatory unbundling of local loops, sold to competitors above costs and a reasonable mark-up, there is simply no ability for any incumbent carrier to argue that “Google's unduly riding free”.
If anything else, the current proceeding at the CRTC opposing a coalition of Quebec-based ISPs and Bell Canada on the issue of capping the mark-up for ILEC/MSO unbundled facilities to the minimum level which incumbents satisfy themselves with for their own retail operations demonstrates the size of the canyon separating the state-of-the-art of regulatory proceedings in the U.S.A vs Canada.
-=Francois=-

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