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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Network Neutrality

Network Neutrality's main focus is to reinterate the Internet's main job of forwarding packets toward their source without picking and choosing between packets based on what their source is, where they are headed to and even their content. This is creating competiton just like MyStoreOnline can compete against Wal-Mart, where any blog can compete for readers against the big publishers and even a door for new innovations to enter the marketplace.
The main areas of concern for Net Neutruality comes down to the following questions which determine which side we should really be pushing for:
How will we access it?
How will it be charged?
How fast will it be?
How fast will it grow?
Who will have access?

So which side should I take? Here is what I am concerend about:
That ISPs might end up slowing traffic at peak times, therefore this will take away from the legitimate users...  However, I would argue that if net neutrality laws were passed the markets would in fact work to consumers' advantage.  ISPs would be forced to minimize disruption to their users, or will end up risking that consumers would switch over to a competitor ISP with a better network.  This would cause a better infrastructure and higher internet speeds for all the consumers, no matter how much bandwidth they use.

Please refer to http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9773538-38.html for more information.

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