[LINK] Net Neutrality in US

[Jeremy Visser]

On 06/02/15 12:28, Jim Birch wrote:
> 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.

This is largely because ISPs here don't actually have video services competing with Netflix (which doesn't even exist here) ...yet.

Unlike the USA, "triple play" isn't even in the Australian dictionary.  Though some Aussie ISPs provide an IPTV service, this is niche.

And the video streaming services that people *do* use are provided by the main TV broadcasters, not ISPs.

> 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.

The main saving grace here is that every ADSL-enabled household is covered by Telstra Wholesale, which every retail ISP has access to.

No national wholesale equivalent of Telstra Wholesale exists in the USA, leading to the monopoly situation we see today.