Wireless is not fundamentally different than wired. What if considerations like this were made for home internet service? If Qwest had allowed to block Skype because they wanted people to keep using landlines at home? The Skype blocking has to go. I have a Verizon phone and Skype is so thoroughly neutered, it's absurd. They even ruin skype-to-skype calls by forcing the app to use only 3G, not wifi, and routing the ca…
Verizon's excuse for Skype limitations on their phones has to do with following – wait for it – FCC regulations to support law-enforcement monitoring: http://connectedplanetonline.com/mobile-apps/news/verizon-sk... So the Feds/FCC are not going to ride to your rescue as a Skype user with noble-minded net-neutrality regulations. Quite probably, greater involvement by the FCC in defining what legitimate, 'neutral' inte…
Why should it be different for wireless carriers vs. wired? I guess the FBI needs to move their Carniv- um, DCS-1000 machines into Verizon, Sprint and ATT data centers, too. Actually, I'm sure they have that covered already. There's no need for different rules for wired carriers vs. wireless. Internet traffic is internet traffic. They'll decode it regardless of how you send it to your access point.