That’s bullshit. I run a small telehealth company and latencies are not “just fine.” I spend much of my day dealing with internet connections for telehealth that are far from just fine, and it isn’t because of raw speeds, but the fact that “everything should be equal” is to ignore the fact that bandwidth is finite. Streaming YouTube is not as latency sensitive as telemedicine. Yet under NN — that traffic has to be treated equally. If I could pay a surcharge to have my traffic prioritized, I would, but under existing rules, real-time telehealth is if equal importance as some kid watching Kinder Suprise egg videos on YouTube, yet if an ISP wanted to prioritize real time traffic, under NN they couldn’t. Now, maybe ISPs could compete on offering things like “optimized for video conferencing or VOIP” or “optimized for large downloading needs” or whatever.

Not all traffic is equal and not all consumers have identical needs.

What the REAL issue is is local governments providing de facto monopoly power to ISPs thus preventing the sort of competition that would make a much more innovative and customizable product for consumers. My needs are more geared around real-time and less around large downloads, yet here in France where I live, all traffic is identically treated, supposedly.

There are unintended consequences with NN that I feel that people don’t understand. The internet isn’t the same as a phone call — some traffic has different requirements in order to be successful, while phone calls are all pretty much the same.