FCC to ration bandwidth

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FCC set to back Internet traffic rules - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - msnbc.com

WASHINGTON — U.S. communications regulators were poised to adopt Internet traffic rules on Tuesday that would allow providers to ration access to their networks.
Federal Communications Commission members Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn issued statements on Monday saying they would support the proposal laid out by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski early this month despite some misgivings.
The rules would ban high-speed Internet providers like Comcast Corp and Verizon Communications from blocking lawful traffic, while recognizing the need to manage network congestion and perhaps charge based on Internet usage.
(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal, which is in negotiations to be acquired by Comcast.)
The rules, to be somewhat looser for wireless Internet, could help cable companies in competition with plans by Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Amazon.com to deliver competing video content over the same Internet lines the cable companies run to customers' homes.
Charging consumers more for data-intensive tasks like downloading videos could tip the economics of Internet-delivered television back toward cable. The FCC said it would monitor usage-based pricing for abuses.
 


Elections have consequences! Many of the idiots in these agencies pushing this crap are apontees of BO. They are a group of far left (even farther than BO) self proclaimed communist, socialist, eugenist and social engineers.

Having a free Internet, watching movies at will, downloading what we want, much less making money on the web is going to be a thing of the past if these statist have their way with the Internet.

Nothing good can come from the government sticking their big fat noses in the web.
 
Elections have consequences! Many of the idiots in these agencies pushing this crap are apontees of BO. They are a group of far left (even farther than BO) self proclaimed communist, socialist, eugenist and social engineers.

Having a free Internet, watching movies at will, downloading what we want, much less making money on the web is going to be a thing of the past if these statist have their way with the Internet.

Nothing good can come from the government sticking their big fat noses in the web.
Yeah, it honestly makes me worry.. especially with all this internet buzz in the news as of late.
 
Elections have consequences!

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people don't realize that the fcc has always been capping the internet. People tend to assume its limited by technology on the providers side when really the fcc is telling the isp's how fast they're allowed to go. They determine how much data is allowed to move on a certain frequencies. So while dialup was capable of pushing 7mbps they were only allowed to go 33.6kbps and compress that to 56kbps. They got approval to switch frequencies and have it run on the same lines and boom 10mbps+ dsl came in. The coaxal wires for cable used to be limited to only 328kbps and the cable companies have been lobbying year after year until now they're in the 20mbps+ range. These are the same cables that used to pull 100mbps on T and token ring networks back in '85. They're just not allowed to go that high by the bastards at the FCC. They've known for 15 years that 2.4ghz wasn't going to hurt anyone with all the cordless phones and microwaves that ran on it yet they didn't wouldn't even allow isdn to run that frequency through a wire causing the technology to collapse before it ever had a chance to take off.

I seriously hate the FCC. It's unbelievable how much they hold us back on technology and progress. Examples of them severely holding back this country by entire decades worth of bureaucracy range everywhere from cellphones to modern pace makers and is a very good reason why china/japan are kicking our ass.
We did a chapter on it in my PLD class in college so we would know what we were allowed to create. It was very eye opening for me. Just on pacemakers and heart disease alone you could put together some crazy statistics on how many people the fcc killed in the years it took them to debate 1amp@1hz was acceptable.
 
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