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Telecommunications 'Father of the Internet' lambastes 'childish' carriers
Telecommunications 'Father of the Internet' lambastes 'childish' carriers | 'Father of the Internet' lambastes 'childish' carriers |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 28 July 2008 | |
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The reintroduction of common carrier status; Structural or accounting separation, with a requirement that carriers wholesale broadband at the same prices that they charge themselves; and No interference with other providers' applications (ie, net neutrality). The current behaviour of carriers is harmful to the national interest, he said - an observation that wouldn't only apply to the US. "[Deregulation] is crap, especially where you have a set of incumbents," he said. Instead, we "need a set of rules that makes sense." Consequently, carriers need to be given incentives to behave differently or (Cerf's emphasis) incentives should be provided for competitors to compete with incumbents. Please read on to find out what Cerf said about regulation. |
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