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February 06, 2006
Both ends pay the middle
CodeWritinFool sends a link to this post at the NetworkingPipeline blog with the comment, "This is a dumb idea."
AT&T: "Free Ride" For Google And Others Is OverAT&T's CEO Ed Whitacre is once again crowing about his company's plans to extort money from Google and other Web sites who want to be able to reach AT&T customers. "The content providers should be paying for the use of the network," he told the Financial Times, and added that they shouldn't "expect a free ride."
AT&T, SBC, Verizon, and others have been busy touting their Soprano-like business model, in which they charge consumers who want to get broadband access, and then extort money from big Web sites if those sites want to be able to reach consumers.
I think the blog post oversimplifies a little.
Posted by joke du jour at February 6, 2006 06:02 PM
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