Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Bruce H McIntosh <bhm at ufl.edu> wrote:
> The REAL evil in the ISP marketplace is, of course, essentially entirely
> unremarked-upon - ASYMMETRY.

Hi Bruce,

We part ways there. I see nothing inherently wrong with asymmetric
connections. I see nothing inherently wrong with whitelist-based
services either: we'll sell you web access service, not general
Internet service. I see nothing inherently wrong will selling
measured-rate service: Gigabit port speed, $X/gigabyte prime time,
free off prime. The idea that any particular Internet-related product
must fit one specific mold like symmetry is abhorrent to me.

BUT

Deceit is Bad Behavior. If you sell me an X megabit per second
Internet access service, you should do everything reasonably within
your power to make sure I can access the Internet sites of my choice
at X megabits per second.

Monopoly abuse is Bad Behavior. Be it cross-subsidy (make competitive
overbuilding impossible by covering infrastructure cost with funds
from other high-margin products) product tying (that fiber optic
channel is bundled with our version of Internet service alone) or
double-billing (You, Mr. Disfavored Organization must pay for access
to a customer base which has already paid us for access to you).

These are the real evils in the ISP marketplace.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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