How To Defeat Network Neutrality
Freedom to Tinker has an informative post about the nitty-gritty behind NOT providing “network neutrality.”
It’s a decent intro to how to drop or delay some traffic in an attempt to extract more revenue. The jury is out as to whether this style of mucking about will drive improved network profitability.
My heart wants this to not happen, at least not on a large scale. My head tells me it can work, even though Internet traditionalists will scream bloody murder.
Just because most Internet last mile access has been priced at a fixed monthly rate with “all you can eat” bandwidth delivery doesn’t mean other rational pricing models don’t exist.
My gut strongly says we are headed towards radically different pricing models which leverage traffic management technology (which is well understood).
Flat rate pricing leaves a lot of money on the table.
At the same time, I also hope I’m wrong.
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