posted at: http://www.wirelesscommunity.info/2005/11/17/nycwireless-
network-neutrality-broadband-challenge-gets-press/
NYCwireless' Network Neutrality Broadband Challenge[1] is starting to
get some attention, with articles appearing in both Muniwireless[2]
and ISP Planet[3].
The ISP Planet article "Why It's Important To Be Neutral" is
particularly comprehensive, interviewing Joe Plotkin, one of our
Board Members, about why his company, Bway.net, supports Network
Neutrality:
"I'm not advocating legislation here. We do control our own network.
I'm just signing a pledge of how we're doing business. We have a
right to throw people off the network for violating our Terms of
Service, but since the early days of wireless, we were one of the
first to allow our DSL customers to share their connections
wirelessly. We get customers because of it. I think it's foolish of
companies like Time Warner to prevent it because the more they do,
the more customers I pick up."
...
That's why there's so much concern about Whitacre's statement. "When
Whitacre says he will extract money from Google, ignoring the fact
that the internet was built on an open platform, he is assulating the
benefits that we as a society have reaped and that American business
has reaped. The internet was successful because it was a common
platform that allowed everyone to interconnect with everyone else."
[1] http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki-index.php?page=BroadbandChallenge
[2] http://muniwireless.com/community/894
[3] http://www.isp-planet.com/politics/2005/net_neutrality.html
Dana Spiegel
Executive Director
NYCwireless
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www.NYCwireless.net
+1 917 402 0422
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