Strict Net neutrality passes House Committee, but fate is rather uncertain

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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060525-6921.html
This particular 'Net neutrality bill would make it an antitrust violation to "block impair, discriminate or interfere with anyone’s services or applications or content," but the bill also addresses service improvements on top of the status quo. If a provider were to offer increase VoIP performance, for instance, the bill would require such providers to prioritize or offer enhanced quality of service "to all data of that type... without imposing a surcharge or other consideration for such prioritization or enhances quality of service."
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Well if we had that then Telkom wouldn't be able to block skype or p2p (i wonder if a cap is categorized as blocking?) ... although then they could just sell you a basic package which really sucks and prioritize web browsing :(
 
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