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What about the rules
Google also see's an issue here and wants Interestingly, the FCC hasn’t criticised
the FCC (Federal Communications Comcast for favouring any of it’s Internet
Commission) to make sure that other private services, such as the Fancast online video
companies’ networks are open and treated services guide, or it’s YouTube rival, Ziddio,
equally to all Internet services. for the way it has managed it’s Internet
network or provided Internet access service.
In July 2008, the FCC questioned whether
Comcast Corp., the US largest provider of But, from the business perspective, will your
high-speed access to the Internet, is “secretly ISP treat your data as "competitively-neutral”
degrading peer-to-peer applications’. Just last or will they favour some other business. And
year Comcast came under attack for putting what if your business relies on heavy data
the brakes on BitTorrent traffic, trying to keep usage to produce its products and services?
so-called bandwidth hogs sharing big video Will you get the service to perform optimally?
files by blocking or degrading the speed That, I believe, will have to wait and see.
of service.
Conclusion
But that Comcast BitTorrent issue got
settled and Comcast moved on to “protocol-
Nevertheless, the future of broadband looks a
agnostic” means of managing its network.
tough one; infrastructure upgrades will need
Meaning: It would regulate volume of traffic,
a good financial model to encourage
as needed, but not the type of traffic. No
investment, and unless we accept higher
particular application would be disadvantaged.
prices for optimum performance then
broadband, or even the traffic we use, may
Meantime, Google and Comcast are now in
be downgraded to low priority. If not then we
bed with each other and have invested in
may see a decline in UK’s local, national and
Clearwire, one of the 4G mobile
global busin
ess prosperity, or even the end of
communications network being championed
Web 2.0.
by cellular pioneer Craig McCaw.
What do you think? Send us your thoughts or
articles to:
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