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FCC 5th principle must allow for reasonable discrimination

As most of us have heard by now, the FCC announced yesterday their intention to create a new “5th principle” of nondiscrimination on the Internet. While there are some serious questions as to whether this is a wise mandate for wireless Internet services, such a principle applied to wired Internet services could be a good thing if it allows for reasonable discrimination.

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  1. Eric C
    September 27th, 2009 at 18:01 | #1

    I think “reasonable discrimination” is a word just open for more trouble ahead. There are countries offer 10 to 100 times faster Internet without charging more..

    I think we should let more ISP into last mile competition and if ISPs have to charge more for more bandwidth usage, so be it.. but I doubt that is the case..

    The world is changing, the consumers is changing, we need to move to newer business models ..

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