On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:47 -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: > (...) All we're ending up with is what is mostly hearsay being treated as > facts.
One consumer organization in France during the ongoing debate with regulators on network neutrality called for network operator to publish some verifiable information on their bandwidth issues: http://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=10387 http://www.alain-bazot.fr/index.php/neutralite-du-net-n-oublions-pas-l-interet-du-consommateur/ http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/55827-alain-bazot-neutralite-ufc-arcep.htm Alain Bazot, president of "UFC - Que Choisir" a well-known french consumer organization wrote on his blog: << (...) Avant toute intervention, l’opérateur devrait prouver qu’il y a un réel problème sur son réseau, comme une congestion. Alors que les témoignages quant à la réalité de la saturation des réseaux divergent, cette condition me semble essentielle. (...) >> My poor translation: << (...) Before any change the network operator must prove he has a real congestion issue. Since informations on the reality of network saturation are divergent, this condition seems essential to me. (...) >> Regulators and the public need data for proper regulation and future changes in regulation, and the issue is the same everywhere :). Sincerely, Laurent PS: sorry for my miscalculation AMSIX 1.2Tbit/s cost is $2.25 per month per Comcast subscriber assuming 16 millions customers and $30/Mbit/s/month transit but as pointed out by participants of this list for a 10G port at Comcast cost is likely to be closer to $3 Mbit/s so it all cancels out to my original erroneous $0.225 :).
