1 post tagged “network neutrality”

Last Monday the BBC announced a deal with The Cloud where people would be able to view content from bbc.co.uk without paying the wireless ISP's normal connection charge.

Or to put it another way: in order to view content from websites that haven't signed a special deal with the ISP you will need to pay an additional free.

Read that last bit again - it's the Network Neutrality end-game that everyone seems to get so excited about.  I waited a week for condemnation from the usual sources.  It never seemed to come.  Why hasn't Auntie been lambasted by Mr Doctorow?  Where's the ORG press memo?

Is it because it's not a wired, ADSL, provider (and therefore, presumably, not a monopoly)?  Is it because it's (currently) only the one corporation that's signed up?  Is it because something that used to cost money is now free, rather than something else becoming more expensive?  Or is it because "it's their network, and they should be free to decide these things.  If you don't like it go elsewhere".

What's the magic formula for neutralising the Network Neutrality argument?  Enquiring minds want to know.