Clearwire Supports Net Neutrality? Does No One Remember Its History?
from the that's-funny... dept
How quickly people forget. With the FCC's announcement about support for net neutrality legislation the PR and lobbying machines of the major telco and cable providers have cranked up, putting out all sorts of fear mongering letters and reports about the damage such a law will do. There was one interesting exception. Some noticed that wireless broadband provider Clearwire appeared to support the FCC's position (though, I'd argue that the statement's wording is a bit vague). While the article at Moconews suggests this "isn't surprising," I'm wondering how everyone seems to have forgotten that Clearwire, in the past, was one of the most aggressive broadband providers to support a non neutral network. A few years back, it was blocking VoIP and streaming media and proudly promised to block any type of traffic or application it didn't like. It also tried to get VoIP providers to get "certified" before promising they could work on Clearwire's network. Of course, plenty can change in a few years, but it's quite noteworthy that Clearwire may have changed its tune on net neutrality entirely.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: net neutrality, traffic shaping, voip, wimax
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What I do have a problem is when government start to legislate specifics. That would be bad.
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"Government legislating specifics"
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Government regulation
>>What I do have a problem is when government start to legislate specifics. That would be bad.
In a free market system I would agree. However, the broadband market in the US is much more of an oligopoly and even a full monopoly in many areas. More government regulation is required the further you move from a free market system, which is one of many reasons that oligopoly and monopolies are bad.
If we had real competition in the broadband market we would not even be discussing net neutrality.
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A Tale of Two Networks
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Re: A Tale of Two Networks
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WiMAX is open
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Blocking ports
The FCC said appropriate network management is allowed but it should be open and documented and most importantly defensible.
No one is selling server services. You get dynamic IP addresses...you should not expect to have server services running. There is no reason to have port 25 open as it is an insecure protocol used primarily by end users to send spam after their computers have been pwned.
SMTP can run encrypted on other ports.
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Old vs. new Clearwire
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