{"id":3947,"date":"2006-06-17T11:59:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T18:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/06\/17\/give-me-bandwidth\/"},"modified":"2006-06-17T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T18:59:27","slug":"give-me-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/17\/give-me-bandwidth\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me Bandwidth . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAndy Kessler, that tricky devil, has an essay on net neutrality in the Weekly Standard where he paints both sides as the bastards they are:<\/a><\/p>\n

\nIN THE LONG RUN, technology doesn’t sleep. You can’t keep competitive King Kong in chains. But why wait a decade while lobbyists run interference? If Congress does nothing, we will probably end up paying more for a fast network optimized for Internet phone calls and video and shopping. But this may not be the only possible outcome. Maybe the incumbent network providers–the Verizons, Comcasts, AT&Ts–can be made to compete; threatening to seize their stagnating networks via eminent domain is just one creative idea to get them to do this. A truly competitive, non-neutral network could work, but only if we know its real economic value. If telcos or cable charge too much, someone should be in a position to steal the customer. Maybe then we’d see useful services and a better Internet. Sounds like capitalism.<\/p>\n

What new things? It’s not just more bandwidth and better Internet video–how about no more phone numbers, just a name and the service finds you? How about subscribing to a channel and being able to watch it when and where you want, on your TV, iPod, or laptop? How about a baby monitor you can view through your cell phone? Something worth paying for. And that’s just the easy stuff.<\/p>\n

We don’t even know what new things are possible. Bandwidth is like putty in the hands of entrepreneurs–new regulations are cement. We don’t want a town square or a dilapidated mall–we want a vibrant metropolis. Net neutrality is already the boring old status quo. But don’t give in to the cable\/telco status quo either. Far better to have competition, as long as it’s real, than let Congress shape the coming communications chaos and creativity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He has some interesting alternatives to the bankrupt regulations coming from the content side.<\/p>\n

H\/t: Red Bank TV<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy Kessler, that tricky devil, has an essay on net neutrality in the Weekly Standard where he paints both sides as the bastards they are: IN THE LONG RUN, technology doesn’t sleep. You can’t keep competitive King Kong in chains. But why wait a decade while lobbyists run interference? If Congress does nothing, we will … Continue reading “Give Me Bandwidth . . .”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-11F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}