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Verizon says Google and Microsoft should pay for bandwidth
Apparently Verizon
didn't realize when they got into the broadband Internet business that they were getting into, well, the broadband
Internet business. TechWeb is reporting that Verizon, which charges its customers $38 per month, thinks that companies
like Google and Microsoft whose apps use up that bandwidth
should chip in, too. The Verizon rep quoted in the article says that content providers like Google and Microsoft
ultimately need broadband networks to reach customers, but is apparently blind to the fact that without content
providers like Google and Microsoft, there would be no demand for that bandwidth in the first place. Head over to
TechWeb for the full, and much more neutral, article.
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tgk said 11:39PM on 1-06-2006
An ISP that doesn't get that it's an ISP... what's next, a dog that doesn't get it's a dog? Oh wait, farley mowat already wrote that one.
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