Day 18

-Network Neutrality is basically a principle that says all internet access should be equal- without anything being blocked or limited by the internet provider.
-Limited discrimination without teiring= United States lawmakers have introduced bills that would allow quality of service discrimination as long as no special fee is charged for higher-quality service.
-limited discrimination and teiring= This approach allows higher fees for QoS as long as there is no exclusivity in service contracts. According to Tim Berners-Lee: "If I pay to connect to the Net with a given quality of service, and you pay to connect to the net with the same or higher quality of service, then you and I can communicate across the net, with that quality of service.""[We] each pay to connect to the Net, but no one can pay for exclusive access to me."
-Many major internet companies are advocates of neutrality, including: Google, Yahoo, Vonage, Amazon
-some engineers oppose neurtrality. they have a website called Hands Off the Internet, which is funded by AT&T
-http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10357806-266.html
-AT&T opposes network neutrality- government should stay out of regulation. companies must limit certain elements
-AT&T is one of the largest holding companies in the world by revenue. serves 78.2 million customers. more than 16.9 internet subscribers. had a net income of $2.4 billion in 4th quarter of 2008. $3.2 billion in 1st quarter of 2009. serves individuals and small businesses
-smiliar feelings about wireless neutrality as Verizon
-AT&T has called google a hypocrit and says they violate their own terms about net neutrality http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10362148-266.html