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Still think net neutrality is a non-issue?
Friday, December 01, 2006
Then Nokia wants to be your BFF. I just got the press release...Nokia is rolling out a software upgrade that lets them identify and block certain services, like voip internet phone calls or P2P sharing. Why would they do that? To preserve their market share. The only way to do that is strangle free access to voip services and substitute their own, higher priced version of voip calling. I seem to recall the UAE is pretty keen on that idea, too.
"With the explosion of affordable high-speed mobile data access, operators are now being challenged to make the best possible use of their networks, especially when peer-to-peer applications increase their traffic load and compete with their own services," says Roberto Loiola, Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Networks, Nokia. "The Nokia Peer-to-peer Traffic Control solution now gives operators the means to analyze and manage such traffic. It allows them to apply their business models by prioritizing the traffic of preferred services and partners, maximize their return on network investment, and avoid becoming only bit pipes for other content providers."
After all the problems I've been having lately with my flaky broadband connection, this latest development makes me really uncomfortable. Because aside from all the dropouts and unavailable pages, something of a pattern has emerged. Could be coincidence or not--but MSN certain sites have no problem coming up while Google Skype others are really hit and miss. I'm just saying...makes you think.
