The conversation continues over at Techdirt, I’m glad I bowed out. It seems that the majority of people who read blogs and write comments (note this is not a representative sample of the country) are convinced that the Telcos are out to dominate the world.
Tell me - what is more likely:
1. The telcos are launching a plan to use multiple tiers of access from network to network, identify every bit in order to do so, radically boost their profits, and force 300 million consumers, and every global media company to accept their plan.
2. They have a broken business model and are scared shitless, and are trying to identify new ways to recover additional revenue to fund network expansion.
Sure is funny how the Telco’s are viewed as evil, while the cable companies who routinely throttle high-usage customers are not villified.
Hey Whitacre and Seidenberg! Start fueling those black helicopters OK?
Pretty limited choices there — and most of us at Techdirt would point out, truthfully, that neither case is true. While one may be “more likely” it’s only because you set up the other to be ridiculous. Pretending that our serious discussion on the matter is about “black helicopters” doesn’t really move the discussion forward.
It would be easier to take you more seriously if you didn’t set up strawmen like that, or ignore all the points some of us made in response to your original comments. You seem to be the one who misunderstands what this is about (repeatedly focusing in on bandwidth when that’s clearly not the issue here).
Oh well. You wanted attention, you got it. Wish you added something with more substance, or were at least *really* willing to debate your points.
Point taken. Sounds like the big point of disagreement is QoS vs. bandwidth and traffic patterns. I see a very clear link that is driving the issue and most other people don’t. I’ll try to explain why in my next post.
And you are right that I want attention. There has not been enough dissention over an issue that I view as a big threat.