Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Jun 2006 22:24 UTC
A US Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules on Wednesday, dealing a grave setback to companies like eBay, Google and Amazon that had made enacting them a top political priority this year. By an 11-11 tie, the Senate Commerce Committee failed to approve a Democrat-backed amendment that would have ensured all Internet traffic is treated the same no matter what its source or destination might be. A majority was needed for the amendment to succeed.
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2005-07-17
WE had net neutrality when we all had dial up modems. The whole "broadband" fiasco from start to finish has been about the Telcos using legal means to make up the control they lost. The logical extension of "Ma Bell" is the Cell Phone industry. It's a CEO's wet dream.. control over the hardware, network, what people can do with the phones, and getting a "dime" for Every transaction. Ma Bell pioneered that strategy but was broken up before they could reap the benefits. What we consider "Net Neutrality" only every legally applied to dial-up because the telcos had end user control of the lines taken away, There's a lot of grandmas out there that still RENT phones because they were all owned by the phone company and you couldn't legally plug in anything else.
The big telcos are making a organized, tactical effort to stall on broadband implementation until all the legal hurtles are removed.. until every network transaction from the network port on your PC is covered under THEIR TOS... and billing plan. Just like Hollywood with HDTV, the tax credits are running out for these big companies and they haven't delivered their promise. So they want more "benifits" to offset the cost they've already been granted considerable tax credits for... This is organized corruption combine with inept bureaucracy. Things are going to get really scary soon.