[LINK] Net Neutrality in US

[JanW]

At 12:28 PM 6/02/2015, Jim Birch wrote:

>> Australian ISPs are definitely not “neutral”
>
>OTOH Australian ISP are sitting on a more-or-less open infrastructure and
>are not milking vertical markets like happens (relentlessly) in the US.
>What seems to be the major gripe in the US is ISP puts the brake on say
>Netflix to "enhance" their own video service.  And, since your ISP is often
>determined by your address you don't have options to switch.  They need an
>NBN, but hey so do we. :)  An Australian ISP would not get away with what
>goes on in the US, customers would switch. 

It will be interesting to see if anything changes when the new streaming services start up in earnest.

Jan


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