<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">To wiegh in on a couple of the questions asked:</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Should Internet service provider (ISP) be allowed to speed up, slow down</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">or block lawful Web traffic from getting to where you, the customer, want</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">it to go?</span></div><div>No, though we have to allow for ISPs to optimize their networks. How we would measure violations is a trickier question. As already mentioned, most of the public isn't aware about these issues and those aware mostly don't care. We have to find a way to make these issues real to them and the regulator.<br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Should ISPs like Orange or Safaricom demand payment from content providers</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">like Facebook or Google because these content providers reap huge profit</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">from the infrastructure provided by ISPs?</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">To answer the question, no.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">It's disingenuous to add this phrase "</span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><i>because these content providers reap huge profit</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><i>from the infrastructure provided by ISPs</i>" </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">to the question. It doesn't matter how much profit they're ripping. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Nothing, I repeat again, nothing is preventing, or has ever prevented, ISP's from building their own social networks, search engines and video hosting websites. Their failure to imagine uses of their infrastructure beyond the initial use case is their own fault and they can't turn around and beginning charging those who have.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Finally I already pay ISPs for the data I use. They'll effectively be charging twice on the same data if they're allowed to charge.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br clear="all"></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">All the best,</font><div><font size="2">princelySid</font><br><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;color:rgb(51,61,71)"><tbody><tr><td height="20" valign="middle"><strong><br><font size="4">Twitter:</font></strong><font size="4"> @princelySid | <b>Website: </b><a href="http://cdohnio.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">cdohnio.blogspot.com</a><br></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div>
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