Verizon Consumer CEO Says Net Neutrality 'Went Literally Nowhere' (theverge.com) 37
Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath has declared that net neutrality regulations "went literally nowhere." Sampath claimed he couldn't identify what problem net neutrality was attempting to solve, despite Verizon's history of aggressive lobbying against such rules. "I don't know what net neutrality does," Sampath told The Verge. "I still don't know what problem we are trying to solve with net neutrality."
When pressed about potential anti-competitive behaviors like zero-rating services, Sampath deflected by focusing exclusively on traffic management concerns, arguing that networks require prioritization capabilities during congestion. "For traffic management purposes, we need to have some controls in the network," he stated. The interview comes as Verizon faces a different regulatory challenge from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who is holding up Verizon's Frontier acquisition over the company's diversity initiatives.
When pressed about potential anti-competitive behaviors like zero-rating services, Sampath deflected by focusing exclusively on traffic management concerns, arguing that networks require prioritization capabilities during congestion. "For traffic management purposes, we need to have some controls in the network," he stated. The interview comes as Verizon faces a different regulatory challenge from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who is holding up Verizon's Frontier acquisition over the company's diversity initiatives.
Sowmyanarayan Sampath is clearly a moron (Score:2)
Sampath claimed he couldn't identify what problem net neutrality was attempting to solve, despite Verizon's history of aggressive lobbying against such rules
Clearly he's a moron (left and unaware what reason the right hand is doing something).
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Sampath claimed he couldn't identify what problem net neutrality was attempting to solve, despite Verizon's history of aggressive lobbying against such rules
Clearly he's a moron (left and unaware what reason the right hand is doing something).
He obvious knows exactly what he is prevaricating about.
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He obvious knows exactly what he is prevaricating about.
Then he's "playing dumb"? I know quite a few people around here doing the same...
Re:yes? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Then he's "playing dumb"? I know quite a few people around here doing the same...
That's not playing, that's called being a trump syncophant.
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I don't know what problem the lobbying-twisted FCC's rules attempts to solve either. I know what problem net neutrality was supposed to solve.
In short, monolithic providers like Verizon double-bill. They bill you for your packets and then they bill the person you're communicating with for your packets too. It's not like the mail where only one side pays. Both sides have to pay or neither gets served. Naturally, the side who pays more gets to define the nature and shape of the service both side get. As the e
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DEI (Score:2)
What, they are filtering packets based on "race" now? :)
I wonder what "flag" I should set on my packets to get priority routing...
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What, they are filtering packets based on "race" now? :)
I wonder what "flag" I should set on my packets to get priority routing...
It's called "traffic shaping" and has to do with bias against the "byte-stuffed challenged".
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The internet has changed a lot (Score:2)
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well ISP need to be banned from owning streaming services.
Will comcast make caps go lower as cable tv starts it death dive?
Take ESPN out of the base package?
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Take ESPN out of the base package?
Unfortunately, Disney (usually) requires ESPN to be carried in order to get all their many other channels ... Apparently, ESPN is very profitable.
Stupid simple example (Score:4, Informative)
I have several employees who can't reach the company VPN from home. They have to use their phone as a hot spot, and everything works fine. Local ISP is blocking VPN traffic. Annoying as frick.
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this is quite strange. in the US? what ISP?
I highly doubt this is by design... especially post COVID.
there might be some seeing on their gateway to allow it?
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Spectrum was doing it in some areas during covid briefly. It wasn't a mistake, they sold "Prioritize your VPN traffic for $10/month"
If you did not subscribe they would block the connection.
It didn't last long until they got public grief for it and changed the blocking into just deprioritizing.
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Is your VPN over something that has been deprecated by a bunch of ISPs for security reasons, like PPTP?
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"Look left; look right; anywhere but your pocket." (Score:4, Insightful)
"I still don't know what problem we are trying to solve with net neutrality."
To adapt an adage about identifying assholes: If you don't see the problem that net neutrality is intended to solve, then you ARE the problem.
Net neutrality is the internet (Score:5, Insightful)
The laws were introduced to protect that, to prevent corporations chopping up the internet into pieces and charging people through the nose for certain types of traffic.
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Dumb Smart People (Score:3)
This smart man shouldn't play dumb, because he clearly doesn't know just how smart us dumb people are. For example, we can tell he's lying. We can also tell he's avoiding the question. AND, we can tell he's a dumb smart person because he doesn't know how smart us dumb people are. The circle of stupidity is complete.
Which Net Neutrality? (Score:3)
Is he referring to the Net Neutrality where consumers get access to the internet without their ISP "shaping" the traffic to benefit their own interests or is it the Net Neutrality where the ISPs protect the consumers from whatever their ISP sees as "bad" for the consumer?
Let me explain (Score:3)
Net Neutrality 'Went Literally Nowhere' (Score:2)
Because they paid Ajit really well to ensure it.
Why do we forget who created Net Neutrality? (Score:1)
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If it went nowhere (Score:2)
Then what's the objection? Sounds like they're working as intended, keeping companies in line with its aims rather than being assholes.
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Fire this clown (Score:2)
You can manage and optimize the traffic on your network without discriminating against the type of traffic. You could also stop wasting your money on retards like Sowmyanarayan Sampath who don't do anything to deserve a 1.5 million salary, let alone several more millions in bonuses, and instead invest that money back into your network so that you don't *have* to manage or optimize it as much. Absolutely no person on the planet does anything worthy of earning 7 figures in a year.
Typical CEO (Score:2)
Ho hum (Score:2)
Another CEO being an asshole. Nothing new.
Really, how convincing. (Score:2)