{"id":4244,"date":"2006-02-23T09:47:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T09:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/game-over-for-lecs.html"},"modified":"2006-02-23T09:47:29","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T09:47:29","slug":"game-over-for-lecs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/broadband\/game-over-for-lecs.html","title":{"rendered":"Game Over for LECs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"><font size=\"2\">I have been meaning top read this <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/-verizon-executive-calls-end-googles-free-lunch-\/2006\/02\/07\/1349290.htm\"><font size=\"2\">article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> for a few weeks. It is the Verizon view on network neutrality and there are some good points made by the telecom giant. But here is a thought that hasn\u2019t come up yet. Let\u2019s assume that Verizon charges Google for high-speed access to their customers and let\u2019s say that Google tells Verizon to find the deepest lake they can and take a high-dive into it.<\/p>\n<p>Google then sends its customers a Tivo like device that delays broadcasts a bit. Imagine a box with a huge buffer that can suck down hours of TV at a time \u2013 trying to anticipate what viewers might watch.<\/p>\n<p>You really don\u2019t even need a separate box to do this \u2013 you just tell your customers that they will need 5 gigabytes of free space to use Google TV or GTV as it is likely to be called.<\/p>\n<p>The concept here would be to suck up more bandwidth and store it locally as you aren\u2019t guaranteed quality of service.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me there would be no way for Verizon to get Google to stop this practice.<\/p>\n<p>In addition this concept can be coupled with or replaced by a p2p model allowing consumers access to programming in a similar manner.<\/p>\n<p>Game over for the LECs.<\/font><\/span><\/span \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been meaning top read this article for a few weeks. It is the Verizon view on network neutrality and there are some good points made by the telecom giant. But here is a thought that hasn\u2019t come up yet. Let\u2019s assume that Verizon charges Google for high-speed access to their customers and let\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,212,218,191],"tags":[283,915,268],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}