Meet Copowi, the world’s first ISP to guarantee network neutrality
How much would you pay for an Internet connection from an ISP that guarantees a neutral network, bills itself as a “social enterprise” instead of a traditional business, and sends free Ubuntu CDs to every new customer?
In the US, the battle over network neutrality has captured the public imagination in a way that it has yet to do in Europe or Australia. Debates over network neutrality occur in the media and in Washington, but new ISP Copowi wants to give customers a way to vote with their dollars as well. When it opened its doors for business two weeks ago, Copowi billed itself as the country’s first ISP to guarantee network neutrality, and it now hopes to prove to other ISPs that the issue matters enough to consumers to provide a competitive advantage, even if prices are higher (and they are).
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The whole network neutrality thing should have never reached this level – the ILEC-to-tier1’s have only themselves to blame.
What’s interesting is that your ISP can guarantee all they want, but their upstreams (if they aren’t a Tier-1 provider) will still be able to force non-neutral activities… Good that someone’s trying, I’m betting they are out of business shortly though. Too bad.
Also note that their dialup pools are leased from tier-1 providers, their reston va number is a UUNET dial number… so they can’t guarantee anything close to ‘network neutrality’ if their dial provider is doing non-neutral things.
Additionally, their NS hosts are from some ad company and their domain is a ‘domains by proxy’ ‘private registration’, seems very scammy to me.