Net Neutrality – moving towards an unfair and unbalanced internet

NO!! Don't let the regulators in. The internet is doing just fine on its own.

Here is a little story about what could happen with Net Neutrality. I have been a Vonage customer for a few years now. I had never had problems with sound quality (in fact, my family always mentioned that the quality was excellent). Then, I decided to switch ISP's. I got Time Warner, which has greater speed and was offering me a great rate. The call quality of Vonage, though, became terrible. Since the complaints from my friends and family did not start immediately, I did not relate it to the connection (after all, I did get 500 KB/sec). I pestered Vonage about this, they could do nothing. Finally, a friend of mine commented that my Skype connection was terrible too. I called Time Warner and told them the problem. "we are not at fault" I was told. I decided to switch back to Verizon. When I called Time Warner to cancel my account, I explained the reason I was doing so to the customer representative. She said "oh, Vonage is in trouble, they are not supposed to be using our connection, we have our own telephone service" (which is 15 dollars more per month). I thought she was either a total idiot, or that she was trying to convince me to stay with Time Warner. I explained her that I was the one using the line, not Vonage, and that I had the right to do so. Then she said something that called my attention: "you need a special router to work with our phone line, that is why the connection is bad." Now, whether she was stupid and reveling too much, or she was just full of crap, I cannot tell, but this would certainly make sense for TW. They cripple their competition and tell their clients about their phone service, which has better voice quality.

Has anybody out there experienced this?

It's all about milk, isn't it?

FON is a global thing, but unfortunately Net Neutrality isn't!

Milking WiFi or milking FON becomes a food chain issue at FON.

Can we safely assume that Telcos would love to milk FON,
just as Bills would love to milk WiFi?

BTW, good reading "Why You Should Care About Network Neutrality"
http://www.slate.com/id/2140850/