Lawmakers in the US Congress will be voting today on a law that will allow the big telecom companies in the US to give priority to certain content. They argue that certain companies are wanting to serve larger files like video and should thus pay more. However everybody knows that you can measure how much data leaves a server already since on many hosting providers you pay for the extra bandwidth. So what are they really after ?
This law / bill displays distinct and undeniable advantages for the telephone companies even though they seem to be denying all the lobbying effort that has gone into such an interesting law for them. In this article Verizon describes Google as a freeloader and goes as far as saying “The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the networks that Google intends to ride on with nothing but cheap servers,” (John Thorne, Verizon senior vice president). It’s true doing things cheaply and being successful is bad. Don’t Cyndi Lauper’s lyrics “I see your true colours shining through” come to mind ? I wonder if the fact that Google has just won a wifi network deal with the City of San Fransisco would have anything to do with the telecom companies being Google-averse ?
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