Google Public Policy Blog: A joint policy proposal for an open Internet

Re:Google Public Policy Blog: A joint policy proposal for an... by lagubya on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @07:38AM (#1591165)

For the next 20-30 years, your "512 anywhere" will remain at 512Kbps since they don't give you money. And your select sites would be getting 100 Mbps since you put all your resources to where money is..

Hence these few companies would have lockin on infrastructure critical for future innovations like Virtual reality, 3D games, High def videos etc.,

And so the internet would not be open anymore. And so it wouldn't be called internet.

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Re:Google Public Policy Blog: A joint policy proposal for an... by gojomo on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @09:57PM (#1593565)

That's quite some crystal ball you have there! If the internet were that fragile, it would have lost to Compuserve and Prodigy. Do you remember them?

Instead, just like pay-for-placement helped pay for city daily newspapers, free-over-the-air radio and TV, and storefront bookstores, pay-for-priority on the internet could subsidize new last-mile capacity and services. But based on concocted nightmare scenarios, net-neutrality regulators want to preclude all experimentation into such models.

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