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Comcast, Time Warner: The Broadband Salad Bar

I suppose a third option would be to simply stop promising speeds they can't effectively deliver, but we all know that won't work. All of a sudden lowering people's Internet connection speeds would make the age of our nation's communications infrastructure impossible to deny.

So, the communications companies look for scapegoats...

Comcast, Time Warner: The Broadband Salad Bar

The problem is that these companies have been overselling capacity for years, and now it's finally catching up with them. Instead of rolling out fiber in the 90s like the tax payers paid them to, they pocketed the money and offered us DSL and cable over the existing copper wires instead.

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Now that video on demand is taking off, at the same time as the BitTorrent protocol made P2P infinitely more efficient than it ever has been, their oversold capacity is becoming brutally obvious.

So what do they do? If you ask me, they have 2 choices here:

1) Do the job they were already paid to do, and lay out a publicly owned fiber to the home network, accessible to everyone and open to competition OR

2) Blame the mess on net neutrality, manipulate the public into believing it's bad for competition, and try to get it repealed. Once it's done and neutrality is dead, open the floodgates of Deep Packet Inspection and protocol filtering. Over saturation isn't an issue if you can simply block packets of data at will.

Clearly, the telecom industry is choosing option #2. I find it rather upsetting, though not at all surprising.