Seems like as good at time as any for Netflix to go distributed peer to peer.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > Is anyone else cynical enough to say FiOS going symmetrical is an attempt to > blunt the pro-NetFlix argument on that point? > - jra > > > > On July 21, 2014 12:46:27 PM EDT, Jason Iannone <jason.iann...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> There was a muni case in my neck of the woods a couple of years ago. >> Comcast spent an order of magnitude more than the municipality but >> still lost. >> >> Anyway, follow the money. "Blackburn’s largest career donors are .. >> PACs affiliated with AT&T ... ($66,750) and Comcast ... ($36,600). ... >> Blackburn has also taken $56,000 from the National Cable & >> Telecommunications Association." >> >> >> http://www.muninetworks.org/content/media-roundup-blackburn-amendment-lights-newswires >> >> In other news, FIOS has gone symmetrical. >> >> http://newscenter.verizon.com/corporate/news-articles/2014/07-21-fios-upload-speed-upgrade/ >> >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: >>> >>> Over the last decade, 19 states have made it illegal for municipalities >>> to own fiber networks -- encouraged largely, I am told, by Verizon and >>> other cable companies/MSOs[1]. >>> >>> Verizon, of course, isn't doing any new FiOS deployments, per a 2010 >>> press release[2]. >>> >>> FCC Chair Tom Wheeler has been making noises lately that he wants the >>> FCC >>> to preempt the field on this topic, making such deployments legal. >>> >>> Congressional Republicans think that's a bad idea: >>> >>> >>> http://www.vox.com/2014/7/20/5913363/house-republicans-and-obamas-fcc-are-at-war-over-city-owned-internet >>> >>> [ and here's the backgrounder on the amendment: >>> >>> >>> http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/blackburn-bill-would-block-fcc-preemption/132468 >>> ] >>> >>> While I generally try to avoid bringing up topics on NANOG that are >>> political; >>> this one seems to be directly in our wheelhouse, and unavoidably >>> political. >>> My apologies in advance; let's all try to be grownups, shall we? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -- jra >>> >>> [1] >>> http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused >>> [2] >>> https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Again-Confirms-FiOS-Expansion-is-Over-118949 >>> -- >>> Jay R. Ashworth >>> Baylink >>> j...@baylink.com >>> Designer The Things I Think >>> RFC 2100 >>> Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land >>> Rover DII >>> St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 >>> 647 1274 > > > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
