Dont put words into their mouth. It didn't say "regulate ISPs and broadband providers". It said "regulate monopolies" that are providing like utility services. When monopolies get rid of regulation, they should also get rid of their special priveledges, that utility status entitles them to.
The important message is that regulation is not the answer. regulation is only necessary, when the governing bodies failed the public and allowed monopolyism to be the goal. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Kunze" <rku...@colusanet.com> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Congressman Wants to Ban Download Caps > Oops, sorry for the blank reply, I hit the wrong keys. > > On 5/21/2009 8:00 AM, Matt wrote: >> Supposedly you cannot throttle p2p and now there trying to say you >> cannot impose download caps as well. > > Personally, I can't EVEN imagine that such a law could stand up to basic > reasoning. > > But think about it. If such a law was attempted, where would they draw > the line? Telling any ISP that they can't use bandwidth management > techniques is about like telling Comcast that they must lift bandwidth > limits on cable service. Since cable has an ENORMOUS amount of > potential bandwidth, the same problem occurs; a few abusive users suck > the life out of the entire network because everyone gets a gig of > bandwidth. > > I tell my customers that "unlimited" doesn't exist and never has. They > try to argue that "their other service was unlimited". When it is > revealed that said "other service" had a fraction of the bandwidth that > I'm now delivering to them, it becomes apparent that the previous > service was in fact severely limited by its inherent slow speed. > Dial-up was of course the first so called "unlimited" service, yet was > in fact the most severely limited. > > The way I deal with it is to show them my service/consumption matrix. > For example, if I deliver 4meg symmetrical and they sign up for > residential service, they are expected to have roughly the same duty > cycle as the rest of the residential group, within reason. If they sign > up for residential and throttle it to 100% 24/7, that's not residential > usage; at the end of the month they'll find that their speed has been > reduced to about what they'd get from typical DSL which in turn keeps > such a customer's monthly throughput within my guidelines for > residential service. This way I keep abusers from abusing. And even in > the very few cases I've seen it happen, the customer is more than happy > to continue on like that. Conversely, if their usage falls back to the > roughly 5% duty cycle normally seen on residential customers, they'll > find that their speed went back to 4 meg. > > I give them one or the other, but not both. My explanation has always > been well understood. "Unlimited" doesn't exist. Unless of course I'm > talking to the 95% of people with "common sense"! > > <cackle> > > Rk > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
