The spontaneous verbal sparring between Google and eBay at this year’s Aspen Summit still reverberates.� In particular, it’s worth noting how a Google attorney explained his company’s rather obvious “non-neutral” leveraging of its services on SonyEricsson mobile phones: “We’re not sure the wireless world is quite the same.”
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“Not sure”?� This is coming from the same company that’s pushing so hard for unprecedented new federal regulations on wireline broadband despite ZERO evidence that it’s actually necessary?!� Yet it feels that those same regulations are unnecessary for wireless access – where it coincidentally has a lucrative fee-for-service deal.
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As the Church Lady might put it, “How conveeeeeenient!”
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Actually, Google’s incoherence on wireline vs. wireless regulation bolsters the argument we’ve been making for months: Broadband technology is in a state of remarkable convergence and change.� As such, any new effort at regulation will inevitably tie down this progress with rules based on quickly outdated technology and services.