MoveOn.org is urging its 3 million members to send letters demanding that network access remain neutral, and Google's Internet chief Vint Cerf has spoken out against tiered access.
Blogger and VoIP promoter Jeff Pulver, on the other hand, is urging a new kind of grassroots movement among Internet pioneers. He is backing a viral marketing contest to urge congressional representatives to "Save the Internet" as a level playing field.
"We are allegedly the revolutionaries of the Internet and communications," he tells Web site visitors. "Shouldn't we be the ones revolutionizing the way advocacy is done and communicated in the 21st Century? We might not have the lobbying muscle, money, resources or connections of the entrenched players in the communications debate, but we surely have the individual and collective will and creativity to transform the debate."
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
