s skippy the bush kangaroo: you can't be neutral on net neutrality

skippy the bush kangaroo



Tuesday, June 20, 2006

you can't be neutral on net neutrality

sean-paul over at the agonist links us to a valid, legitimate reason that we need net neutality: the cable companies are charging more for services of companies that don't cooperate:

canada-based cable provider shaw communications handed vonage more bad news in the form of a "quality of service enhancement." vonage customers, presumably not the ones suing vonage over its abysmal ipo, who connect via shaw's services have the "opportunity" to upgrade their voip service for a small fee. otherwise, they can expect static.

for an additional $10 per month shaw will provide a quality of service (qos) feature that will enhance these services when used over the shaw high speed internet network. without this service customers may encounter quality of service issues with their voice over internet service…peer to peer music or video downloading can create periodic loading at the expense of other internet applications.
when vonage complained in court, calling the qos a "thinly-veiled voip tax," shaw defended its right to relegate vonage to a connection vulnerable to delays and "inherent limitations" while reminding the public that shaw also offers a voip service, which just so happens runs automatically with the aforementioned qos.
sean-paul reminds us to take aciton: call congress: 888-355-3588, it"s free, write congress, blog it or add the logo to your site, and make it your myspace best friend!
posted by skippy at 3:59 PM |

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