Rostelecom President Discusses Rejection of Network Neutral Principle

The appearance on Nag.Ru of the article “ Green and Blue Future of Rostelecom ” on May 12 and the subsequent appearance on NoNaMe of the article “ OJSC Rostelecom” There will be no more Limit! »May 20, of course, reflects the powerful (perhaps even with hints of hysteria) concern of many networkers and networkers about a number of statements by Alexander Y. Provotorov, president of Rostelecom OJSC .



Videotaped by Provotorov’s speech at the extended meeting of the board of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of Russia, which was held during the international exhibition Svyaz-Expocomm-2011, posted on Telecomz’s website contains such statements that even the least farsighted viewer is able to guess about following the leadership of Rostelecom, following a number of foreign examples (the situation in Canada and the circumstances of several European providers were cited as an example) itnyh tariffs for access to the Internet, to put aside the old principle of network neutrality and go to the filtering and (or) further charging of such types of information services, such as access to a video sharing site (named YouTube for example), access to the videophone (named Skype as an example ), access to file sharing (torrents were named as an example), the traffic from which is currently ≈70% of Rostelecom channels.



The alternative for video hosting and torrents (which, of course, can be completely “crushed” by new tariff levies) will be Rostelecom’s own media portal, containing only legal content and equipped with its own CDN (content delivery network). Also mentioned by Provotorov and the planned use of the subscriber’s account of Rostelecom (to pay for the content being viewed) as a replacement for credit cards and Internet payment systems. Also mentioned is the intention of Rostelecom to create its own social network, populating it with subscribers of IP television. This media portal will appear soon - in the fall of 2011:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tilN7Ui1gOQ

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In this video, really, there is something to rise and stir the hair on my head! I hope no one needs to be particularly reminded that the current Rostelecom is not just a major interregional information highway, but also absorbed and combined many Svyazinvest interregional companies - major providers cumulatively covering a whole bunch of regions of Russia, in each of which, outside any large cities (that is, in medium-sized and small cities, as well as in rural areas) , there are simply no other providers in general :





The digital divide separates those cities in which there are real competitors of Rostelecom (and this is only a hundred cities ... maybe one and a half or two hundred) and the rest of Russia. In general, it is enough for Provotorov to want to - and in this rest of Russia files on file sharing will no longer walk, Skype will stop calling, YouTube videos and other video hosting sites stop spinning, and only Rostelecom's showcase will remain with paid licensed content.



It annoys me not only because in fact often licensed content is not needed (although I mentioned this before at Habrahabr), but also because under the banner of the transition to a legal paid video there is a creeping rejection of nothing less legal ( but simply free, and therefore non-monetized) video that fills video hosting such as YouTube.



In addition, I liked unlimited.