Owning Your Internet Connection

Are you tired of your internet service provider (ISP) changing the rules? Have you had enough of limitations and reading new ISP regulations? Professor Tim Wu from the Columbia Law School is applying an old concept to the internet connection. He is suggesting that a possible solution is owning the internet connection:

“…In a study released last Thursday, the same day the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission issued a verdict allowing Bell Canada Inc. to continue slowing certain internet uses, Wu suggested an access model that would allow home owners to purchase high-speed connections rather than rent them from service providers.

Under the “homes with tails” model, customers would purchase a fibre wire connection to their home that would provide speeds far in excess of what is generally available in North America today. The fibre would be connected to existing open exchange buildings where a large number of telecommunications pipeline providers have equipment that forms the backbone of the internet.”

link: Could consumers own their internet connections?

It would mean the internet user controls all the essential facets. Not only can the netizen go and buy the fastest computer with the most RAM. That internet user could select the online connection wanted and without the current ISP limitations. - Now you have added another item to your wish list.

Catherine Forsythe