Thank You Tim Karr
Its comforting to know that someone, SOMEONE, is alert enough to notice the telcos attempting their spin control of…. YOU!!! This someone is Tim Karr.
Read this opening statement from an article by David Lieberman of USA Today;
“Enjoy your speedy broadband Web access while you can.
The Web will start to seem pokey as early as 2010, as use of interactive and video-intensive services overwhelms local cable, phone and wireless Internet providers, a study by business technology analysts Nemertes Research has found.
“Users will experience a slow, subtle degradation, so it’s back to the bad old days of dial-up,” says Nemertes President Johna Till Johnson. “The cool stuff that you’ll want to do will be such a pain in the rear that you won’t do it.”
Nemertes says that its study is the first to project traffic growth and compare it with plans to increase capacity.
The findings were embraced by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA), a tech industry and public interest coalition that advocates tax and spending policies that favor investments in Web capacity.”
Get concerned did ya’?
Well, its all bunk! Why? Tim tells us why…
Mr. Lieberman “accidentally” or “unknowingly” neglects to mention some very important information about his sources for this panic/chaotic spewage.
“Nemertes is a wind-up research group funded by the Internet Innovation Alliance, an “Astroturf” group underwritten by AT&T.”
Yeah… really…
Tim offers us contradictory information that you might think a writer for USA Today would have access to;
Recent figures from Infonetics Research find that telecom global capital expenditure will exceed $220 billion in 2007. “Carriers are obviously not short of money, but rather than spend it on new infrastructure, many are looking at less capital-intensive strategies to reduce the strain, such as bandwidth shaping,” writes Dave Bailey of ITWeek. “This is carrier-speak for putting the brakes on your broadband connection, which is unlikely to go down well with most customers.”
Bandwidth Shaping? Where have I heard that recently?
And Tim concludes with the reality of why a David Lieberman emits these types of gaseous implausibilities;
“In their ceaseless efforts to become the gatekeepers to what we do online, the phone and cable companies funnel money to unscrupulous think tanks, which, in turn, churn out research, painting a picture of Internet Armageddon that can only be averted by giving the telcos exactly what they want: more money and control.”
If we continue to allow ourselves to be treated this way, that’s exactly what will continue to happen, we’ll be treated like fools who can’t see the truth.
Thanks Tim!
