One of the unknowns at the moment is how any proposed Federal Communications Commission network neutrality rules might affect a service provider's ability to offer quality-assured services.
That's possibly important for any users or providers of real-time services (voice and video), since bandwidth alone is not a guarantee of quality experience.
Real-time services are highly sensitive to latency and delay. The issue then is whether consumers will have the option of buying services optimized for real-time services.
Think of this as an end-user opportunity to buy bandwidth services that are akin to the Akamai content delivery service currently available to businesses.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Net Neutrality Not Good for Real-Time Services?
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broadband,
business model,
business VoIP,
consumer VoIP,
mobile,
network neutrality,
VoIP
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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