[discuss] [ISOC_KE] Has the battle for Net Neutrality already been lost?

Thu Feb 27 02:44:35 UTC 2014

Interesting perspective.

Ali Hussein

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"I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein

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> On Feb 25, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
> 
> Recommended reading:
> 
> http://www.jacobrosenberg.com/2014/02/24/cdn-games/
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>> Listers
>> 
>> Apologies for cross posting.
>> 
>> With the caving in of Netflix to Comcast's 'bullying' is the debate for Net
>> Neutrality become irrelevant?
>> 
>> Have market forces rendered this very emotive issue irrelevant?
>> 
>> Is the action by Comcast Anti-Competitive?
>> 
>> Why aren't the authorities in the US (the so called beacon for Net
>> Neutrality) not doing anything about it?
>> 
>> For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated,
>> competitive free market. Given the tendency of networked industries to lapse
>> into monopoly--think of AT&T's 70-year hold over telephone service, for
>> example--that's a minor miracle. But recent developments are putting the
>> Internet's decentralized architecture in danger.
>> 
>> In recent months, the nation's largest residential Internet service
>> providers have been demanding payment to deliver Netflix traffic to their
>> own customers. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Netflix has
>> agreed to the demands of the nation's largest broadband provider, Comcast.
>> The change represents a fundamental shift in power in the Internet economy
>> that threatens to undermine the competitive market structure that have
>> served Internet users so well for the past two decades.
>> 
>> Read on:-
>> 
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/23/comcasts-deal-with-netflix-makes-network-neutrality-obsolete/
>> Ali Hussein
>> 
>> +254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113
>> 
>> "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will
>> have a generation of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
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