Hmmm . . . last I checked I *do* pay to use my phone line and a lot of
people I know *are* paying for cable services. And don't online
merchants and services pay as well?
Let me guess . . . the Telco want to be like the credit card companies
and increase charges to users on both sides of the transaction.
ScottGee1
On 2/12/06, Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hearings are being held in Congress by Ted "Bridge to Nowhere Man"
> Stevens on the internet. They appear to be at the behest of the giant
> telephone companies.
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> Big telco execs are on the record:
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> AT&T's Ed Whitacre wants consumers and content providers to pay for
> use of his network. "The Internet can't be free … for a Google or
> Yahoo or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes free is nuts."
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> BellSouth's William Smith told reporters that he would like to turn
> the Internet into a "pay-for-performance marketplace" where his
> company could charge for the "right" to have certain services load
> faster than others.
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> Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg says that Web applications need to "share
> the cost" of the broadband services already paid for by consumers.
> "We need to pay for the pipe."
>
> If you were hoping for continued cheap or cheaper access it may not
> happen. You might want to find out more about it and take the action
> you think is appropriate.
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> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
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