Saturday, April 28, 2007

Tiered Internet

I’ve just been reading an article on tiered internet.
What is TIERED? means anything or any one of two or more competitors who tie one another.
Same is going to happen in internet. Tiered Internet means allowing companies to compete on even terms and keeping the infrastructure of the internet non-biased towards any online service provider.
Lets take a situation in which a company has developed an online service such as video streaming. As videos are reaching the people via the cables that have been laid down by Internet Service Providers(ISPs). ISPs are proposing that all data is not treated equal. They would charge you extra for the multimedia content or they would charge the content provider an extra fee to ensure quick delivery of that content on the network.
This similar to the days of private telephone infrastructure ownership where you could not call another person on a different network unless you signed up to their network. Those practises were causing people to subscribe to many phone networks just so they could call people that they needed to. This is the same with tiered internet. It’s motivated by greed primarily. If this goes ahead we might be in the situation where we are signed up to one provider for cheap email and low bandwidth application access but are forced to sign up to a different provider if we want to play our favourite online game.
I can’t believe people are even discussing this form of service separation in today’s environment of open standards and compatibility. Services from ISPs as we have it now are perfect. There’s no reason at all to change the model that these services are offered under.

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