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How the internet works, and why it’s impossible to know what makes your Netflix slow - Quartz : "For most of us, the internet is what you’re looking at right now—what you see on your web browser. But the internet itself is comprised of the fiber optic cables, the servers, the proverbial series of tubes, all owned by the companies that built it. The content we access online is stored on servers and transmitted through networks owned by lots of different groups, but the magic of the internet protocol lets it all function as the integrated experience we know and, from time to time, love."

Level 3 and Cogent ask FCC for protection against ISP “tolls” | Ars Technica :  ""Level 3 urges the Commission to protect the Internet from this abuse, by ensuring that bottleneck ISPs, which control the only means of Internet access to millions of consumers, are not permitted to impose these arbitrary access charges," Level 3's filing said. "That does not mean that ISPs should not be able to offer—and charge for—CDN, transit, or other services to edge providers and others. Rather, the Commission should declare that large bottleneck ISPs, in addition to offering any commercial services they chose to make available, must also exchange Internet traffic on commercially reasonable terms without imposing access charges. That is, ISPs should be permitted to charge other providers for services they provide, but they may not charge fees simply for the privilege of accessing that ISP’s customers.""

AT&T TV Commercial -- "Network Guys - Rock Band" - YouTube : " " 'via Blog this' ...ero.

Calling All Lawyers: Did Verizon New Jersey Commit Fiber Optic Fraud? | Bruce Kushnick : Fact: By 2010,  100% of the state-based Public Switched Telephone Network , controlled by Verizon New Jersey should have been upgraded with a fiber optic wire that could deliver 45 Mbps in both directions. Fact: Only 13% of municipalities in New Jersey will be fully wired. One-third of all municipalities will have NO upgrades. About 50% of the population will not get upgraded. Fact: Verizon New Jersey's 2001 Annual Infrastructure Report claimed it completed 55% of the New Jersey with 45 Mbps bi-directional services.

An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web | Technology | The Guardian :  ""Unless we have an open, neutral internet we can rely on without worrying about what's happening at the back door, we can't have open government, good democracy, good healthcare, connected communities and diversity of culture. It's not naive to think we can have that, but it is naive to think we can just sit back and get it.""  ...ero.

Mayor Wants Social Equity in High Speed Internet Access | NY City Lens : "“So many people in this city, even if they are lucky enough—many aren’t—to have [high speed Internet] access in the community, they can’t afford to pay for it.”"   ...ero.