AT&T Backs Verizon and Google On Net Neutrality

[ginnai]

It not new that capitalism allows market share leading companies to participate in policy making. One alternative is that internet access, wired and wireless, could become a governmentally regulated commodity. Utilities are generally quasi-governmental agencies to prevent rate hikes and abuse... its not a great option, but in order to avoid monopolies and undisputed control of wireless in the future... it could be brought to the table.

 

[razorblaze42]

Closed my Google account, and switched to Bing. Not getting that HTC Evo I wanted so bad, because it has Android OS...made by Google. Guess I'll get a windows mobile phone, unless of course they join the 3 stooges AT&T, Google and Verizon in taking over the internet /sighs

 

[drutort]

"It plays an enormous role in our daily lives shoving money in our pockets, and it will continue to do so, because were greedy like that at an ever-increasing pace. But we have huge challenges ahead on finding new ways to rip off the customer, defined by the ever-constant struggle between squeezing every dime and nickel out of our customers."

there we go fixed it.

 

[drutort]

i think its time for broadband companies to buy some cell towers and give us true unlimited Internet on our phones... or how cool would be to have a 2ndary sim card, or something like that, that is only for DATA that you pay with your current bill on your digital tv/cable etc... for say extra $10 i would like that, all they would need to do is connect it in there existing infrastructure

 

[Guest]

"On Friday, AT&T announced support for the proposal and attempted to explain why wireless broadband shouldn't be subject to the same rules as wired broadband."

AT&T: We believe wireless shouldn't be subject to the same rules because we want to f**k our customers and get as much money as possible from them too.

 

[Guest]

As someone pointed out earlier, companies tried this same stunt with wired broadband not to long ago.

My mailbox (the USPS one) is getting more spam letters from AT&T and Verizon than ever. It is growing at an unprecendented rate. They could probably save a ton of money and not need to charge us extra just by cutting that out.

Still, what fool believes a company when they say "Since we believe we could charge our customers more money, we cannot possibly survive under current conditions without raising our rates."

If "2GB/month satisfies over 98% of users," are you seriously trying to say that the other 98% who only use a miniscule fraction of their 2GB to make up for the minority that uses 3GB, or even 40GB.

Either that, or you're lying about the conditions in the first place.

 

[jimslaid2]

Net Neutrality = Poor Excuse for poor customer service and the unwillingness to adapt and change to customer demand.

 

[jeraldjunkmail]

email sballmer@microsoft.com and write him a letter about how Bing could be number one if they launch an anti google/ATT/Verizon ad and declare MS a net neutral company.

 

[pocketdrummer]

Thanks google... you really screwed the pooch on this one.

Someone tell me of a better e-mail than gmail, please. I don't want to provide google any more income.

 

[therabiddeer]

Why has wired internet greatly stagnated as of late while huge improvements have been made to wireless networks? Oh, I know why. Its because wireless networks for phones and such regularly have had relatively low data transfer caps.

The same telecomms companies that run wired internet also run wireless networks. Why make wired (with its historically unlimited data transfer caps) better when you can make wireless better and charge people more for less? Now the possibility of wireless getting different rules? What a crock.

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]I don't want to provide google any more income.[/citation]
Better stop using the Internet then.

 

[gorehound]

net neutrallity for all big corporations but not consumers

 

[dacman61]

[citation][nom]proxy711[/nom]Anyone useing magic jack[/citation]

I do. Even before those damn annoying commercials came out..

 

[MindfieIds]

Don`t let them restrain your FREEDOM to make more money! In my country, Romania, no ISP limits the data transfer on the wired networks. And they better not think about it. You should act against this. Don`t let them create a precedent so that other countries take it as an excuse to do the same in their country. If they succeed to fool the government to approve it ... hack them all down!!!

 

[tommysch]

I wish that the FCC/gov will just steamroll them with a good old fashioned legislative hammer.

 

[knife1020]

net neutrality coming soon!! health care already down our throats.. social justice does anyone see this or everyone just hopeing this goes away. since this president all policys are pretty mutch running off jobs say what 8 mill and still climbing.
geeez wake up america bowing to other country leaders please!!!! welcome to hope and change the new what you voted for UNITED SOCIALISTS OF STATES

 

[Caffeinecarl]

Dear Knife,
Before posting another comment on THG, you are hereby sentenced to successfully enroll in the third grade. Only after completion of the course will your comments be taken seriously!

 

[mrecio]

The bad thing is, when enough of these big corporations get behind google and Verizon (any corp in the wireless market will want to back google) then they will have the power and money to sway this into reality.

The way I see it they want to take a hold of the wireless market to make $$ on the convenience of wireless. While current reality shows that the line between wireless/mobile internet and wires home internet are blurring. Once that line disappears wireless will no longer be profitable for these corporations and that is exactly what they dont want. ( google ATT and Verizon that is)

 

[Enkidu98]

I disagree completely with AT&T and Verizon/Google. The 'wireless' network _isn't_ wireless. Sure, your phone to its tower is wireless, but everything else is occurring on a wired network.

This is just an end around to try to destroy net neutrality by calling everything 'wireless' and no wired providers would remain as they would catch on and do the same, your 'cable' modem would no longer connect to cable to your house, but to a wireless station, etc.

This is patently wrong. We need to stop allowing corporations to attempt to write our laws. Heck, they aren;t even attempting to write them, they flat out write them and then find someone in congress who will present the matter for a small fee to their campaign funds.

Corporations are not people and do not deserve the rights of people. They also do not act in the best interest of anything but their own profits often to the detriment of citizens.

Get their slimey hands out of government and Google.. shame on you. 'Do No Evil!'

 

[figgus]

Actually, I think they make a valid point though it pains me to agree with them.

Wireless bandwidth is finite, you can only push so much data per frequency and there are only so many frequencies you can use.

If you max out your wired bandwidth, you can just drop another cat5 or fiber line and the problem is solved.

So, wireless is truly a limited resource, wired is not.