Carriers gear up to sell priority QoS

BellSouth, AT&T and Verizon are all considering deals to offer premium quality-of-service to specific content providers. But if content providers get better QoS in a finite network, then everyone else's performance suffers. That basically gives the network provider control over your Internet experience. Look for the FCC to start asking questions about this potentially dangerous trend.

For more on the imminent trend:
- read this IDG News article
- read this Washington Post op-ed