The internet is a standard. You comply or you don’t. Telcos get paid by their customers for the bandwidth. The customers use the telco to access content, and the telcos cry that they don’t make enough. THE CUSTOMERS ARE PAYING FOR THE BANDWIDTH. It’s nothing more than the telcos complaining that they need to get payed for the info coming and going, it’s a shift from what has been done to date. It’s a shift from how the internet has existed to date. It’s the telcos trying to squeeze every last penny out of the internet, nothing more.
Even cooks know that.
/johnny
As one of the civil engineers on the internet superhighway, I can tell you that the nice thing about standards is that you have so many to chose from. The real problem is in how the Telcos and ISPs cost model their business.
Telcos and ISPs have approached the internet from the phone business model where there is a connection and the end user can connect to anywhere else. So that is how they sell access. Comcast will charge you for different levels of internet speed. This model presupposes that all internet traffic is the same and has the same characteristics. However, that is not the case.
I am of the opinion that the first Telco / ISP that figures out how to sell tiers of service to the general public, will make a killing.