Google Using 21x the Bandwidth It Pays For? By Whose Math?

Iria · Dec 6, 2008, 09:23 PM

This week, Scott Cleland of Precursor LLC, a "telecom analyst" and Chairman of NETCompetition.org, an anti-Net Neutrality organization, released a study (.PDF) this week called "Estimating Google’s U.S. Consumer Internet Usage & Cost -- 2007-2010." According to Cleland, in terms of broadband, Google used 21x more than it paid for. Of course, the mere chairmanship of NETCompetition (take a look at its members) leads one to be concerned about, oh say, neutrality, and not just net neutrality.
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Source: Tech-Ex

Stop It · Dec 6, 2008, 10:57 PM

Big telco companies producing "independent" yet totally spurious bandwidth figures for Google in an attempt to justify the move to a tiered internet system? Colour me SHOCKED...

Not.

Anyway, surely most of the bandwidth used by Google is caused by bringing search content results to ISP users, thus making the bandwidth the users (and thus ISPS) responsibility. Of course this is only part of the reason why these companies want to kill net neutrality, google makes a shedload of money, money the telcos want back, what better way to do it is by making Google more expensive (in bandwidth cost) than the ISPS own search (and thus adveretising) services, breaking free market ideals because they know that they cannot compete on a level playing field.

Note that even Microsoft, the big "evil" corp supports net nuetrality, why? Because not even they are that anti-competative.

Dec 6, 2008, 09:23 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Google Using 21x the Bandwidth It Pays For? By Whose Math? This week, Scott Cleland of Precursor LLC, a "telecom analyst" and Chairman of NETCompetition.org, an anti-Net Neutrality organization, released a study (.PDF) this week called "Estimating Google’s U.S. Consumer Internet Usage & Cost -- 2007-2010." According to Cleland, in terms of broadband, Google used 21x more than it paid for. Of course, the mere chairmanship of NETCompetition (take a look at its members) leads one to be concerned about, oh say, neutrality, and not just net neutrality. ____________ Source: Tech-Ex

Dec 6, 2008, 10:57 PM	#2
Stop It HHs' Resident Kitty Lover Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Biggleswade, UK Posts: 1,431 Rep Power: 78 System Specs	Re: Google Using 21x the Bandwidth It Pays For? By Whose Math? Big telco companies producing "independent" yet totally spurious bandwidth figures for Google in an attempt to justify the move to a tiered internet system? Colour me SHOCKED... Not. Anyway, surely most of the bandwidth used by Google is caused by bringing search content results to ISP users, thus making the bandwidth the users (and thus ISPS) responsibility. Of course this is only part of the reason why these companies want to kill net neutrality, google makes a shedload of money, money the telcos want back, what better way to do it is by making Google more expensive (in bandwidth cost) than the ISPS own search (and thus adveretising) services, breaking free market ideals because they know that they cannot compete on a level playing field. Note that even Microsoft, the big "evil" corp supports net nuetrality, why? Because not even they are that anti-competative. __________________ Sig Courtesy of Mousey Last edited by Stop It; Dec 6, 2008 at 11:02 PM.