On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 18:48 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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:
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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