Cisco CEO Says Obama's Plan will Destroy High Speed Internet

[Xeridian]

Cisco CEO Says:

"Obama's Plan will Destroy High Speed Internet"

 

After reading that Obama had come out in Favor of Net Neutrality and urged the FCC to "Set the Strongest Possible Rules", I was confused. Then, Cisco's CEO came out with this statement and now I really don't know which side we should be on. Could the U.S. Government try to influence censorship more with the FCC at their fingertips and the false security that President Obama gives us with his statement? Does the Cisco CEO, John Chambers really see loss of income as a threat to the entire system or is he worried their own personal gains will be derailed?

 

We all know that ISPs have already received payouts that they never used to enhance the internet infrastructure, but could we be screwed no matter which side we land on?

Is there a way to secure the future of the internet and net neutrality? I'm sort of with the president on this one, but could there be an ulterior motive we aren't seeing here?

Article on Business Insider

 

 

 

[dlf]

Can these people logically and critically think?

[Osmium]

tbh I feel like the president has more urgent things on his mind... or at least I would hope. 

[Anthony10]

pretend the fcc and isps are the police, this is how I feel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M8vei3L0L8

[mr.skyrim_pc]

I am so sick and tired of these isp's BS!

 

*punches hole in monitor*

[RazeG3SG1]

kill all ISP CEO and Tom Wheeler!

[TetraSky]

Sound like a whole lot of BS to me...

"Service providers are already "struggling big time in certain geographies on how to make money," Chambers said."

No they aren't. If they were, they wouldn't be sponsoring a bunch of events everywhere.

[Tech_Dreamer]

2nd post & spot on...Keep t up B)

 

As for the news, it could be true , like he said I really don't know which side we should be on.there are many other cards that are yet to be played & possibly could cause an issue..

[CatCloud]

Don't worry guyz China and Russia is around the corner, they'll save you.

In all seriousness, why are the people not doing anything about it? Pull a French Revolution if you must.

Don't Americans have the rights to voice there opinions?

[XTankSlayerX]

Why don't people start rebelling?

[Syntaxvgm]

oh for fucks sake. I have nothing left to say.

[SpaceCore]

Don't worry guyz China and Russia is around the corner, they'll save you.

In all seriousness, why are the people not doing anything about it? Pull a French Revolution if you must.

Don't Americans have the rights to voice there opinions?

[RH00D]

The only reason he is saying this is because Cisco depends on ISPs building out infrastructure. That's a large part of how Cisco makes money. The ISPs are threatening to reduce infrastructure investment if Net Neutrality rules are enforced as Obama laid them out.

 

Thus, Cisco stands to lose money if the ISPs follow through with their threats and that is why Cisco CEO thinks Net Neutrality is bad.

 

Its always about the money.

 

Cisco makes billions of dollars selling equipment to internet service providers. If they don't want to upgrade or expand, Cisco loses. Even if they are just postponing or trimming their their plans, Cisco loses.

Some of that is already coming into play, Chambers warned. Cisco's revenues from service providers was down 10% in its last quarter and he blamed, in part, fears over net neutrality.

[bomerr]

Cisco sells network equipment. ISPs purchase network equipment. Cisco is trying to protect their profit.

 

Truth is the ISPs have already failed America when it comes to high internet speed; Korea is laughing at us right now

[Yoinkerman]

Cisco makes 99 zillion dollars off of isps, whose side do you think Cisco is on?

[bomerr]

If metered, tiered data become a reality it'll stifle innovation and future tech growth; specifically 4k/5k content needs large bandwidth. 

 

The fact that ISPs are trying to limit data with tiered plans already shows they would rather cap consumers then increase their network capacity. 

[Lord Baal]

If metered, tiered data become a reality it'll stifle innovation and future tech growth; specifically 4k/5k content needs large bandwidth. 

 

The fact that ISPs are trying to limit data with tiered plans already shows they would rather cap consumers then increase their network capacity. 

^This it sounds more like net neutrality would actually help towards making them upgrade their infrastructure if they hope to offer decent speeds. Allowing them to tier their plans would help them avoid it so BS threats aside net neutrality should actually increase or at least maintain Cisco profits allowing them to just stick with what they have and reduce speeds to some to offer it to others would allow them to sit on the equipment they currently have hence the 10% drop in profits as ISP's have stopped upgrading equipment.  

[The Crazed Child]

Why don't people start rebelling?

bcos peeps could get hurt

[coder-guy22296]

Cisco makes 99 zillion dollars off of isps, whose side do you think Cisco is on?

If Isp's upgrade infrastructure using cisco routers, only mean better performance, how is this bad?

[Jaybird]

how about we take both ideas and shove them some where else. the internet is fine where it is and was. 

 

that said, id like to side with cisco. no body knows more about the system than cisco. 

[Paragon_X]

how about we take both ideas and shove them some where else. the internet is fine where it is and was. 

 

that said, id like to side with cisco. no body knows more about the system than cisco. 

Well CISCO as much as I like them they are a for profit organization and the CEO would align with that policy (make Profit). And ISP are money making machines for them

The  thing is that I am not sure about what happens after the Internet is classified as a Title II Utility? I have read somewhere that the policies concerning utilites are from the 1930s (this surely creates a problem when you use virtually ancient policies to govern something that it didnt exist even on the plane of imagination for people of that era), and how the Government can intervene on the system after that is done? 

[MoonSpot]

To be frank if I were an ISP, I probably wouldn't be buying cisco even if I had any inclination to improve the network.  There are other sources that manufacture core router out there.

Plus given the internet brownouts/blackout that happened earlier this year, I don't think ISPs have much more room to BS with John Q.Public anymore.

 

But this is why cisco CEO made $21+ million last year.  To be completely full of $#!7 to benefit his customers(ISPs) to secure cash money for himself, other old cronies and crooked politicians.

 

The euphemism "same as it ever was" & "more things change, the more they say the same" would still seem to apply.

[Northstorm]

It's amazing how greedy some people are.

[Guest Kloaked]

What if they asked what the American people want? Oh wait they already did.

[Dashrider]

Don't worry guyz China and Russia is around the corner, they'll save you.

In all seriousness, why are the people not doing anything about it? Pull a French Revolution if you must.

Don't Americans have the rights to voice there opinions?

in all honesty... we don't really. sure can voice our opinion, but it only delays the inevitable. we may seem like a democracy, but... we live in a corporate oligarchy.  Lobbiests control everything.