As POTS slowly dies as a service, the question of what we should have as the model for public communication has given birth to the FCC’s Net Neutrality guidelines. With over 125 years of policy associated with POTS, the transition to the public Internet is not going to be easy and it is understandable that the rules need to be constantly re-engineered.
Now the Internet has gone through a number of iterations. As our friend Scott Bradner of Harvard has pointed out, we started with the goal of supporting data and now we support voice and video all while migrating from low bandwidth modems to broadband solutions that continue to scale. It’s pretty amazing.
Policy has been iterated sometimes based on the shifting tax opportunities and sometimes based on jurisdiction; for example, the FCC yielded to states on some VoIP taxation issues.
I bring this up because Verizon has brought an interesting argument in its effort to revoke Net Neutrality. The logic that they are applying is very close to the rules that apply to cable broadcast operators. In effect, the Verizon argument is that they want to be thought of as a broadcaster...Read More
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