Comment Neelie (Kroes)

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excerpt from: Adapt or die: What I would do if I ran telecom company

[...] [If necessary: And here again, let's not kid ourselves. There is a need for, a demand for, investment in broadband capacity. And of course that has to be paid for. But customers cannot be forced to subsidise specialised services they do not use, and those specialised services cannot be allowed to slow-down access to the open Internet. ]

There would be no need for throttling or capping or discussions on net neutrality if we had a real fibre network that just worked. The reason all these measures exist is because we are working on a scarcity model through copper bottlenecks instead of an abundance model on fibre. The simple rules of physics apply.

Chris Conder, 01/10/2014 22:17