RE: [isp-wireless] What do you think?

[Brett Glass <isp-wireless@...>]

At 09:08 AM 5/26/2006, Moebius wrote:
 
>Its any destination on the internet that would have to pay to be in the
>fast-lane.. so you'd have to pay if you wanted your /24 or whatever you
>address space is to be in the AT&T fastlane. Invariably, customer demand
>would force you to do this.. And, you might have to pay multiple carriers to
>be in the fast lane.. 

More to the point:

Suppose you have a business customer that wants its employees to connect
to the office via a VPN. Employees try to do so from their home DSL
connections and find that they're stuck in the "slow lane," with
extremely slow access to the office LAN, even though the promised
bandwidth of their customers' lines should be enough to allow good
access. 

The ILEC says, "Switch to us and we will make sure that the speed 
is adequate anywhere in our region." You, the small ISP, don't have the 
regional footprint of the telco (e.g SBC/AT&T) and can't do the same.

The ILECs, which are engaged in a bloody struggle to gain an edge over
other ISPs (especially the cable companies), can and will engage in
such anticompetitive tactics if allowed to do so.

--Brett Glass






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