"The article has fuck all to do with Sprint planning to end unlimited data."
As noted I get your point about the headline, but this comment suggests to me you didn't actually read the last two paragraphs of the story, as the other commenter noted, and don't actually care about the background details in regards to neutrality (which are important). Needless to say, I shant disappoint you again. :)
Interestingly it looks like T-Mobile's now putting a 21 GB soft cap on that unlimited data. Which to me is certainly very generous, but still struggled with that whole dictionary thing:
I tend to agree with you. I floated between two titles, but found the fact that they're killing unlimited data to be more interesting than the fact they backed off throttling unlimited data, so I went with the former as a title, thinking users would read through for full context and background. In the process I probably buried the lede pretty painfully, sorry.
"Netflix was able to get some attention from ISP's by telling it's customers that their connection was slow because of the ISP.
However, someone needs to tell CNS that this worked for Netflix because their customers actually gave a flying f*** about their service."
Well, and the service was actually being intentionally slowed down. In CNS' case, they're not even qualified as a larger company able to get settlement-free peering.
Have consistently heard the same thing from their employees. Verizon was keeping its network together with Scotch tape in places like West Virginia before it sold them off to Frontier.
"It is so very easy to do a traceroute and determine where there are issues, damn there are numerous websites that enable you to double and triple check your data to determin if there is a specific issue with an individual route."
Many of these tests show you there's a problem, but they won't always show you WHY there's a problem. A lot of the data needed is kept confidential (especially on issues like interconnection).
I'd agree. But this being AT&T, one can help wonder what the caveat is. They've spent the better part of fifteen years trying to develop a way to double (and in some cases even triple) dip broadband connectivity.
"I agree with net neutrality generally, and think our big ISPs take way too much advantage of their market control and are seriously dickish for it, but this one is going to be tricky to delineate out where the acceptable practice ends and the wrongful practice begins."
Yep, and that's where the ISPs will settle in and the abuse is going to occur. Going to be a daily battle for the FCC To determine what undermines the fundamentally balanced nature of the Internet, and what really accounts to a "free toaster."
After AT&T introduced Sponsored data (letting some ISPs pay to be cap exempt) and saw a backlash, I think they're soon shifting to the free toaster idea, wherein you get X amount of general use data if you "interact" with a brand, which to me is a far less dangerous model.
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Yeah this is an extremely unpopular practice that started about a decade ago and is generally seen as acceptable, even if it breaks the core functionality of the Internet. I highly doubt the FCC would get involved here, as in most instances users can now switch DNS providers or opt out.
I've seen a few ISPs with opt-out systems that don't work, but regulators rarely seem to find it worth fighting over.
Rogers for most of the last decade has been at the bleeding edge of network neutrality shenanigans, if I recall. Some of their ham-fisted, idiotic efforts make busting neutrality violators easy.
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After AT&T introduced Sponsored data (letting some ISPs pay to be cap exempt) and saw a backlash, I think they're soon shifting to the free toaster idea, wherein you get X amount of general use data if you "interact" with a brand, which to me is a far less dangerous model.
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I've seen a few ISPs with opt-out systems that don't work, but regulators rarely seem to find it worth fighting over.
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