Posted on 05/14/2017 12:54:52 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The providers can't provide streaming HD to everyone (all different streams). They simply do not have the bandwidth despite your "paying for that bandwidth". Thus sometimes they have to throttle. But only streaming video, and mainly HD. Anything else that they try to throttle can simply masquerade as any kind of content and this can't be throttled. Censorship or favoritism is a non-issue.
As for cable companies throttling Netflix in favor of their own or someone else's video, that's a specific possibility, but not a problem the government can solve without screwing everything else up. The main problem is that the regulations will enable class action lawsuits which only enrich the lawyers while the victims get a coupon.
There is competition, mainly wireless and it has enough bandwidth to support 480p for every subscriber. But it is improving.
No. Not in many places.
I just spent $430 for one month's Verizon service at our family farm. No Netflix, no movies, just a bunch of kids with their phones/tablets.
And this was just after switching from AT&T because Verizon had a better plan.
The reality is that in many, many places the network providers have an effective monopoly/duopoly, and almost by definition free market principles don't apply.
That is more or less what his intrusion was scapegoated over.
The ISP model is based on a lot of individual users, and ISPs both sending and receiving data at similar levels, with payments exchanged for the imbalance.
Netflix traffic is nearly all one-way, and so results in a huge (half the Internet) imbalance. The ISP attempted to re-balance Netflixs extreme and at that time very unusual usage pattern which exploited a loophole in the model.
Netflix doesn't send out unsolicited data.
The user requesting the content should pay for the bandwidth that they consume.
The ISPs know that charging customers for bandwidth used isn't popular so they're trying to obsfucate the issue.
Me too. I found him extremely intelligent.
The problem I have is probably the same as your farm, the rural wireless services are underprovisioned and overages like your kids produce are expensive. The solution is more provider flexibility to throttle streaming video. I know you said no Netflix and no movies but the only way you can get those overages is when the kids were doing streaming video.
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