[LINK] Australian ISPs offer US advice, smugness, on net neutrality

[Kim Holburn]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080929-australian-isps-offer-us-advice-smugness-on-net-neutrality.html
http://tinyurl.com/3fbemo

> For years, US Internet service providers have been offering their  
> users unlimited access to the web, creating high expectations among  
> customers who have never had to think before accessing content. As  
> that content has shifted from text to music to video, however, ISPs  
> have found that living up to the promise of "all-you-can-eat"  
> broadband can be expensive in a nation of gluttons.
>
> One symptom of this problem is the industry's opposition to net  
> neutrality, which would prevent ISPs from profiting on specific  
> services or content, or degrading and blocking others. In the midst  
> of this fight, the executives of several ISPs in Australia have  
> weighed in, suggesting that they've solved this problem already and  
> that their US counterparts should pay attention to their model.


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