it s-all-about-the-control dept
Tue, Dec 13th 2005 12:43pm
Mike Masnick
A couple weeks ago, we had the story about BellSouth saying it wanted to prioritize traffic and services from certain (paying) partners or just its own services. This wasn t a surprise, as the telcos have been leaning towards this for a while. While we had thought that any move in this direction would lead to public outcry and an FCC mandate for network neutrality, we hadn t counted on Kevin Martin being so willing to roll over for telcos. It s certainly not as clear any more what will happen. This morning there s lots of buzz about an article in the Boston Globe saying that telcos are lobbying for just this right, with Slashdot, Boing Boing and Broadband Reports all weighing in. What s not entirely clear, though, is how serious this is. The Boston Globe article seems like it s really just a riff on the earlier BellSouth story without much new just tying together the obvious loose threads.