[RTC List] [Fwd: Re: Your Future Broadband Will Cost More, for Less]

[Josh Koenig]

This is exactly the point.

While I've no doubt that heavy bittorrent users currently make up a  
fair number of "intensive users," the future of a wired household is a  
lot like what Eric describes, which demands large amounts of non- 
latent bandwidth. Particularly as videoconferencing and thinks like  
netflix/hulu/miro, etc continue to mainstream.

My perspective is that beyond fundamentally not "getting it," the  
telcos want to throttle independent video distribution networks  
because they all see on-demand programming as a big future revenue  
stream and want to box out potential competition. C'est la vie.

The way to prevent this from happening is to insure a real marketplace  
around access. That means driving Network Neutrality, common carriage,  
and universal service as policies, opening up more licensed and  
unlicensed spectrum, and doing whatever else is possible to help  
competitors to telco duopolies emerge.

-j

> At my home we have two gaming stations, three workstations and a  
> NetFlix box. On my work bench I have a four port KVM that I use to  
> reload computers in the evening so that I can be at home instead of  
> work. We also use Skype to talk to family, in the kitchen we listen  
> to internet radio and we use ITunes for our IPods. We also use FTP  
> to share photos with other family members.
>
> We do not use file sharing and all content we receive is legal and  
> the wireless is secure.
> Is this excessive use?
> We pay for the top DSL offered now should we pay more?
>
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