<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Interesting perspective.<br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">Ali Hussein</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Feb 25, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com">joly@punkcast.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Recommended reading:</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.jacobrosenberg.com/2014/02/24/cdn-games/">http://www.jacobrosenberg.com/2014/02/24/cdn-games/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Listers</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Apologies for cross posting.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>With the caving in of Netflix to Comcast's 'bullying' is the debate for Net</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Neutrality become irrelevant?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Have market forces rendered this very emotive issue irrelevant?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Is the action by Comcast Anti-Competitive?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Why aren't the authorities in the US (the so called beacon for Net</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Neutrality) not doing anything about it?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>competitive free market. Given the tendency of networked industries to lapse</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>into monopoly--think of AT&T's 70-year hold over telephone service, for</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>example--that's a minor miracle. But recent developments are putting the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Internet's decentralized architecture in danger.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>In recent months, the nation's largest residential Internet service</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>providers have been demanding payment to deliver Netflix traffic to their</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>own customers. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Netflix has</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>agreed to the demands of the nation's largest broadband provider, Comcast.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The change represents a fundamental shift in power in the Internet economy</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>that threatens to undermine the competitive market structure that have</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>served Internet users so well for the past two decades.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Read on:-</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/23/comcasts-deal-with-netflix-makes-network-neutrality-obsolete/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/23/comcasts-deal-with-netflix-makes-network-neutrality-obsolete/</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Ali Hussein</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>+254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent from my iPad</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>isoc mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:isoc@orion.my.co.ke">isoc@orion.my.co.ke</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc">http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>---------------------------------------------------------------</span><br><span>Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast</span><br><span>WWWhatsup NYC - <a href="http://wwwhatsup.com">http://wwwhatsup.com</a></span><br><span> <a href="http://pinstand.com">http://pinstand.com</a> - <a href="http://punkcast.com">http://punkcast.com</a></span><br><span> VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - <a href="http://isoc-ny.org">http://isoc-ny.org</a></span><br><span>--------------------------------------------------------------</span><br><span>-</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>