The USA Today story quotes: "They only pay for a broadband loop from a central office to their home," said Whitacre [of AT&T]. Delivering content from Web servers to end users "takes huge (network) backbones to get across the country." And there's the rub. You thought you were paying for a connection to the Internet backbone. They want to charge you extra for the connection to the internet backbone. They cannot stand the idea that you might have access to content on which they cannot collect revenue.
