{"id":4879,"date":"2014-02-24T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2014-02-24T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:26:07","slug":"verizon-heavy-web-users-should-pay-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2014\/02\/24\/verizon-heavy-web-users-should-pay-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon: Heavy Web users should pay more"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heavy broadband users should help shoulder the cost of their traffic, but Verizon Communications does not give preferential treatment to some Web traffic, the company\u2019s CEO said Monday.<\/p>\n

Still, Verizon has had its own interconnection discussions with Netflix related to increasing the video provider\u2019s traffic speeds on the broadband carrier\u2019s networks, Verizon Chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said. Following a Sunday announcement that Comcast and Netflix had reached an interconnection deal, McAdam said his company has had similar discussions with the video provider.<\/p>\n

The Comcast and Netflix deal shows \u201cthe commercial markets can come to agreement on these to make sure the investments keep flowing,\u201d McAdam said.<\/p>\n

McAdam addressed the U.S. Federal Communications Commission\u2019s proposed net neutrality rules during a conference call about the company\u2019s acquisition of Vodafone\u2019s 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless. The FCC\u2019s move this month to resurrect net neutrality rules should provide \u201cclarity\u201d for the broadband industry, said McAdam, whose company successfully challenged an old version of the regulations in court.<\/p>\n

McAdam dismissed concerns that his company would selectively block or slow some Web content. \u201cWe make our money by carrying traffic,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s how we make dollars. So to view that we\u2019re going to be advantaging one over the other really is a lot of histrionics, I think, at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

But McAdam suggested that broadband power users should pay extra. \u201cIt\u2019s only natural that the heavy users help contribute to the investment to keep the Web healthy,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is the most important concept of net neutrality.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FCC needs to look at the broad Internet industry, not just broadband providers, when it considers new net neutrality rules, McAdam said. Companies like Netflix, Apple, Microsoft and Google have a role, and \u201cany rules will have to include all of these players,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

McAdam called for the FCC to create \u201clight touch\u201d rules on net neutrality. The FCC needs to consider growing uses of broadband in medicine and other fields, he said. \u201cEverything from health care to telematics to the energy grid need to be balanced with someone who\u2019s trying to watch last year\u2019s episode of [TV show] NCIS,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

McAdam said he\u2019s \u201cencouraged\u201d that the latest FCC effort may bring clarity on net neutrality rules.<\/p>\n

via Verizon: Heavy Web users should pay more | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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