In his speech at the parliamentary meetings and that the minister has on his Facebook page, Eric Besson advocates to charge the websites consuming the most traffic. The leitmotif of his speaking was a picture of a highway where the truckers, that is to say the biggest consumers of bandwidth demand to be treated the same way as individuals in their car and requesting an ambulance traffic faster.
He raises the specter of congestion believing that the growth of traffic already poses a risk of network saturation. It will even explain why net neutrality, a principle which advocates equal treatment of all users of bandwidth, would mean "would mean the end of certain types of services such as VoIP or IPTV" .
Let us pause a moment at the beginning of the speech. The alarmist tone seems particularly exaggerated. Traffic growth is not new and operators have always been able to adapt to changes driven by the financial gains they represent. The higher the speed increases, the subscription prices climb, and their margins.
This is particularly evident in North America. The image of the highway seems misleading, mainly because it generalizes a far more complex. All lanes of a highway are not managed by a different company and there is no global organization providing the flow of the highway. The Minister therefore advocates a modulated traffic management by ISPs who could pay the biggest users.
He cites the examples of Google or Facebook, which contribute to the "financing of infrastructure or the creation." As always, we too often forget that the consumer will end up with the bill. IPad is even more expensive? Get ready to pay to use Facebook. 
He raises the specter of congestion believing that the growth of traffic already poses a risk of network saturation. It will even explain why net neutrality, a principle which advocates equal treatment of all users of bandwidth, would mean "would mean the end of certain types of services such as VoIP or IPTV" .
Let us pause a moment at the beginning of the speech. The alarmist tone seems particularly exaggerated. Traffic growth is not new and operators have always been able to adapt to changes driven by the financial gains they represent. The higher the speed increases, the subscription prices climb, and their margins.
This is particularly evident in North America. The image of the highway seems misleading, mainly because it generalizes a far more complex. All lanes of a highway are not managed by a different company and there is no global organization providing the flow of the highway. The Minister therefore advocates a modulated traffic management by ISPs who could pay the biggest users.
He cites the examples of Google or Facebook, which contribute to the "financing of infrastructure or the creation." As always, we too often forget that the consumer will end up with the bill. IPad is even more expensive? Get ready to pay to use Facebook.
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