Bad news.
Meanwhile a LOT of gas has been and will continue to be spewed about network neutrality, which is the idea that ISPs should treat all packets equally. For the record, I am strongly in favor of network neutrality even if I see it as a fading hope. For the moment most ISPs have signed on to this notion, but I am here to tell you that’s not going to be the case long-term. The big ISP’s have long planned for the end of net neutrality and, whether it is next year or five years from now, most ISPs are ready.
In the end the ISPs are going to win this battle, you know. The only thing that will keep them from doing that is competition, something it is difficult to see coming along anytime soon …
By the way, Cringely is a pen name. Many have written under the name for Infoworld.
The Cringely I like is brilliant tech journalist Mark Stephens.
After a financial disagreement in 1995, Stephens was dismissed from Infoworld, and was promptly sued by IDG to prevent him from continuing to use the Cringely trademark. A settlement was reached out of court that allowed him to use the name, so long as he did not contribute to competing technology magazines. As a result, Stephens’ writing as Robert X. Cringely regularly appears in publications such as The New York Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Upside, Success, and Worth. Stephens has also appeared as Cringely in two documentaries based on his writings: Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires and Nerds 2.0.1.
Stephens’ Cringely currently writes an online column for the PBS website called I, Cringely: The Pulpit, and has launched a new internet television show NerdTV, also for PBS.
Rick McCharles 
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Focus on the positive! Keeping the internet as it is today will allow us to make the needed upgrades to our internet backbone so we just might be able to compete with other countries who are far ahead of us.
More choices like fiber optics and more innovations and technologies like Joost and telemedicine are coming to fruition. We’ll be able to experience the net unlike ever before.
I am fighting against net neturality with the Hands Off the Internet Coaltion because I see these bright hopes as a reality but net neutrality will only boggle us down and tangle us in the weeds. Here’s to the next generation internet for all to enjoy!