Comments on: Bill Proposed to End ISP Traffic Hijacking http://clintsharp.com/2006/03/02/bill-proposed-to-end-isp-traffic-hijacking/ Views on Technology, IT Operations and Life Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:26:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Paul Goscicki http://clintsharp.com/2006/03/02/bill-proposed-to-end-isp-traffic-hijacking/#comment-600 Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:28:31 +0000 http://clintsharp.com/bill-proposed-to-end-isp-traffic-hijacking/#comment-600 Similar thing has been happening in Poland for as long as I can remember. National operator (TPSA – Telekomunikacja Polska SA), owner of 90+% of land lines and optical networks in Poland is putting smaller ISPs out of business – by charging them way too much for each Mbit of traffic exchange (no matter which way more traffic goes). And there is nothing smaller ISPs can do – they have to pay. The only player to fight back with TPSA is Pol34 (a consortium of educational institutions with its own fiber-optic cable, similar to Internet2 in US). They didn’t agree with rules set up by TPSA so they have blocked 100% traffic coming from them. And now (and it’s been about 1,5-2 years already) all traffic exchange between pol34 and TPSA is happening abroad.

Yes, all monopolies must be squashed until they bleed or else they do everything in their power to make as much proffit as possible (including as much of unfair competition practices as possible).

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