Net Neutrality this is really important to teleworkers
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I’ve written a couple of posts about Net Neutrality over the past couple weeks (this week, last week). While you might think this is just a music and video aficionado’s issue, it isn’t, far from it. If you work from home, even some of the time, this should ping up on your radar big time. Why? Because it’s high-speed Internet and the level net playing field that has helped make telework feasible in the last 5 years.
Imagine if an e-mail you send at 8 AM doesn’t get delivered until noon because your ISP isn’t paying tolls to the telcos. Imagine downloading the latest report from Forrester or another online data provider, and it taking twice as long as it does now. How about searching with Google. Sure Google will come up quickly, but what about the sites in the results? Think about how much longer research will take.
I’ve actually dealt with a tiered system in the past, and let me tell you it sucked. In my last days at GlaxoSmithKline we were using Lotus Notes. One “feature”—I use the term loosely—was that some e-mail would be queued for later delivery if the system thought it was “low priority”. Not the person sending it setting the priority to low, no, the system analyzed the sender, subject, etc and decided that it wasn’t needed right away. Result? I told all my suppliers to mark all their e-mails urgent/highest priority to make sure I would get it right away. Yep I was gaming the system, but I had to, I was left with no choice. More than once a really important e-mail didn’t get to me until lunchtime, the end of the day, or even the day after because the system was having a heavy e-mail day and just kept delaying all “non-urgent” e-mails.
And if you don’t think the same thing won’t happen in a tiered Internet world … I have a bridge in New York City for sale … cheap.
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