Comments on: Why Fixing Internet Capacity Keeps the Telcos Honest

By: Can P4P Solve Bandwidth Bloat? - GigaOM

Can P4P Solve Bandwidth Bloat? - GigaOM — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:34:51 +0000

[...] their own, such protocols can help, but won’t stave off the need to build out more network capacity or make existing protocols more efficient. However, as carriers cry uncle under the supposedly [...]

By: tcp wire and cable

tcp wire and cable — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:13:03 +0000

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By: Maximilian Sarte

Maximilian Sarte — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:01:17 +0000

BOLLOCKS! If there is something in EXCESS in Canada is Bandwidth! Remember the last tech bubble? Well, during this era THOUSANDS of MILES of fiber were laid out! That is “DARK FIBRE” i.e. UNUSED! This is pure and simple BS. Bell is GREEDY that’s ALL!

By: Mari Silbey

Mari Silbey — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:28:52 +0000

“2.Domestic broadband similar to what taxpayer dollars already paid the telcos for more than 10 years ago.”

Unfortunately there’s not a practical way to address point #2. And at least Verizon made a capex leap when it started the FiOS roll-out. The telecoms have some unsavory history, but I do give Verizon credit for spending on fiber at a time when investors would have preferred otherwise.

By: bj

bj — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:24:02 +0000

You forgot #4. Reinstitute Local Loop Unbundling and Real Competition. It worked in most of the EU, in the countries who are beating our butt in broadband deployment, broadband buildout, broadband cost and broadband speed. Though, of course, whenever it’s talked about, the telcos whine about how further regulations aren’t needed. They are. This Laissez-faire approach isn’t working, it’s putting a stranglehold on the last mile, and allowing the network “owners” to manipulate the market and bitch about capacity.

If there is REAL competition, coupled with strong net neutrality regs, these companies won’t be able to play these games. Geez, a friend of mine who lives in the suburbs outside of Paris has a choice of over a dozen broadband ISPs to choose from. He’s paying under $40 a month, and gets his “cable” tv channels, his landline phone, his ultrafast broadband, and a bunch of other stuff for that dough. AND the ISPs who started off leasing the last mile access, are now building out their own fiber. Compare that to here. ACK!

By: Paul G

Paul G — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:11:07 +0000

Interesting piece Stacy. The internet is becoming the national on-demand cable TV system, albeit with more content moving around the edges among end users and less content originating at the center of the network. I am a little skeptical that carriers will ever have enough bandwidth (even when combined with more efficient protocols) that would make traffic shaping unnecessary.

By: Robert Rosenberg

Robert Rosenberg — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:04:03 +0000

Prioritizing packets is a smoke-and-mirrors solution so long as the end-to-end transfer flows though more than one network OR the session is being done via IPv6. Prioritizing via QoS that is broken in IPv4 once the packet leaves the senders network (the QoS flags in IPv4 Headers are not implemented in a way that end-to-end QoS works if more than one network is involved). This problem has been fixed in IPv6 where end-to-end QoS can be implemented.

By: p2pvine.com

p2pvine.com — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:45:07 +0000

Why Fixing Internet Capacity Keeps the Telcos Honest...

In the debate around Internet regulation and traffic, it’s important to understand the things that drive how much bandwidth we need. Without fixing the bandwidth shortage on the wire or in the protocols, we make it easy for carriers to claim that they ...