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On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 18:48 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:46:20 EST, John Payne said: > > What am I missing? > > Obviously, the same thing that management at SBC is missing: <snip> > He argued that because SBC and others have invested to build high-speed > networks, they are due a return. > > "There's going to have to be some mechanism for these people ... to pay for the > portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?" He offered > no details how his idea could be accomplished. > > For an Internet company to "expect to use these pipes free is nuts!" Whitacre > added for good measure. </snip> Sounds like an extremely short-sighted view of the Net and it's economics. Claiming content providers should be charged for "using" broadband access-pipes is fine and dandy, but coveniently forgetting that without content there probably wouldn't be a great deal of customers wanting broadband in the first place is a bit sloppy, no? Erik -- Erik Haagsman Network Architect We Dare BV tel: +31.10.7507008 fax: +31.10.7507005 http://www.we-dare.nl
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