Re: the confusion about net neutrality

I am not disputing that point - but also note that applications expand to consume just as much or more bandwidth than is available

People used to survive reading text only websites and receiving 5 kb email over uucp not two decades back

--srs

> On 15-May-2015, at 8:26 am, Arun Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The point I am making, Suresh, is that if you were to spend money on speeding up access, instead of trying to prioritize, you would be spending money in a way that makes people happy -- the packets you wished to prioritize go faster too, of course. If you spend your money instead on prioritization, which requires your software to examine each packet, that slows everything down -- very likely also the packets you are trying to prioritize!
> 
>> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Please approach this from a competition policy perspective on last mile access rather than packet prioritisation 
> 
> The point I am making, is indeed from a technical standpoint. Of course the marketing people would like to be able to blackmail people, telling Ola that if you pay more, Uber will be a lot slower than you. What they won't tell you, is that in the process Ola gets slower too, but that Uber gets a lot slower. But the technical argument ultimately wins. People have tried to break net neutrality before, I believe that it hasn't worked.
> 
> Competition policies are "policies intended to prevent collusion among firms and to prevent individual firms from having excessive market power. Major forms include oversight of mergers and prevention of price fixing and market sharing. Called "anti-trust policy" in the U.S."
> 
> To me it would seem that competition policies are entirely compatible with net neutrality. Indeed, if a company violates net neutrality, I would look carefully to see if they in the process violated anti-trust laws.
> 
> Arun Mehta

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