John Griogair Bell's Blog

Category: Network Neutrality

  • If you use DSL, you’ve already lost …

    —

    by

    John Bell
    in , , ,

    I’ve been meaning to write something about this for a long time. This won’t be a perfectly thought out piece. It’s been years since this stuff was in my head, so it is what it is. In thinking about net neutrality, I was remembering back to the early, early days of DSL. At the time,…

  • Suddenly scope-locked on net neutrality

    —

    by

    John Bell
    in , ,

    Om Malik posts about an article the issue of network neutrality which appears quite good. Additionally, there’s a much better metaphor than mine here: Via Om Malik’s Broadband Blog, “Net Neutrality Not An Optional Feature of Internet“: “The telco and cable companies have in mind creating another type of customer not a class of service.…

  • Monetize that service!

    —

    by

    John Bell
    in ,

    Over at Boing Boing, they offer comment on something going around the Net, AOL/Yahoo: our email tax will make the net as good as the post office! AOL and Yahoo have proposed a system to charge senders a quarter of a cent for each email delivered to their customers. I keep hearing Adam Ant singing,…

  • Google is the new black

    —

    by

    John Bell
    in , ,

    Rumours mount over Google’s internet plan Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who are in commercial negotiation with the company. With job postings for positions that fit with Google transitioning from a search engine into a…

  • There ain’t no such thing as a free ride.

    —

    by

    John Bell
    in ,

    Via Broadband Reports, in “FT.com / Companies – AT&T chief warns on internet costs“: “We have to figure out who pays for this bigger and bigger IP network,” said Mr Whitacre, who was in New York ahead of AT&T’s annual presentation to investors and analysts on Tuesday. “We have to show a return on our…

  • Moving the service to the public peering points

    —

    by

    John Bell
    in ,

    Via Slashdot, “Google’s Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber?“: “The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid. While Google could put these containers anywhere, it makes the most sense to place them at Internet peering…

  • There’s gold in them there network packets

    —

    by

    John Bell
    in , ,

    Via Business Week, At SBC, It’s All About “Scale and Scope”: “So there’s going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they’re using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? The Internet can’t be free in that sense, because we and the…

  • —

    by

    John Bell
    in ,

    On Fark.com, “[Interesting] Two companies come to an agreement that will keep a large chunk of the Internet from collapsing like it did last month” This thing between Level 3 and Cogent isn’t the first peering issue. There have been others, like when several backbone carriers threatened to start charging to transit non-local traffic. I…