Posts by kamikrazee 6 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Nov 2013
I understand your theory!
I do! I really do!
You are bat-crap crazy! You should get your meds checked ASAP, I think they are beyond their freshness date. It's OK, you can have a Kool_Aid and an Oreo while the nice technicians get some new pills for you.
Spark of life my toenail.
But I do enjoy your posts. (I mean that). More than some of the real ones.
I failed to mention that AT&T, Verizon, Cox et al, are not only transport companies, (the pipeline analogy), but content and service providers as well. They all have some form of TV service, and, if you want to use a competitor, (NetFlix is the popular example), the principle of net neutrality kicks in to keep the pipeline company from hindering or blocking access to providers besides them.
What would you say if you purchased an internet based home alarm service from someone besides your ISP and they made a point of providing less than a standard grade of speed or bandwidth to the alarm company, who happened to compete with their own offering?
Consider a scenario where you drove down a highway in a neighboring state, and were restricted to one lane at a lower speed limit than residents of that state. One might think that rights had been stepped on if not outright violated.
Sorry for the addendum.
They abandoned the basics and have chased every fad and buzzword that comes along like it was a teen heart throb. They made this bed, they can get out of it too, but I think they have not a clue.
And, not that it matters. But I will click submit, and the slowest link in my chain as a router I bought for $7.00 at a garage sale, connected to Google, here at the house. I don't get the full Gb service but they try hard.
Right now I am seeing 955 Mbps
AT&T is fooling itself. It tries hard to believe that it is still an industry leader, but it really doesn't even follow real well. The service it provides is mediocre at best, and the service to most residence customers, (the lowest priority) is, in about 40% os surveyed responses, terrible.
Net neutrality is not about fairness, it is about building a robust, far reaching delivery system that gets to everyone in the country. The internet is a pipeline, a means to an end, but not the end in itseld, and as such, it out to be supported and lightly regulated. As things are today, the giants of the industry will, literally, bypass some streets because it costs a bit much to provide a higher grade of service, but will eagerly tear up the next street because it was estimated that the cost was cheaper.
Access needs to be universal throughout a franchise area, and, carriers should not be allowed to pull out of franchise areas due to the inconvenience of having to replace outdated facilities. In return, they ought to continue to enjoy the favorable tax incentives that they currently use to beat states and cities into economic submission.
AT&T refusing to play only gets one stooge off the field for a while. Good riddance. we need a coherent policy, some government input and leadership herre. Now.
This is nothing. The day is coming when Adobe and the other Big brothers will decide who publishes and what gets published, and nevermind if the cloud is working or if it is raining or whatever.
I once thought I would die before this day came, (I mean, techno overreach and the exaggeration of salespeople is not a new development), but damn if it isn't happening before the death panels and social value courts are up and working.....
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