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| WTF? This is the stupidest thing I've heard in a while.
So, should car manufacturers have to pay for roads? Never mind that I already paid taxes to build and maintain said roads?
Some how in big Ed and Ivan's twisted logic, they would find a way to defend this. Talk about going off the deep end.
I already pay $50/month for a connection from me to the world and the world to me.
Hopefully this stupid little idea gets nowhere in a big hurry.
Go ahead and block content a-holes. See how fast I switch providers!
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| This is exactly why they should have blocked the mergers of Verizon with MCI and SBC with At&t. They both now think they own the backbone too.
Thank god for alternatives like sprint and level 3. Lets just hope independent access providers and content providers have the smarts to discontinue their circuit contracts with At&t and MCI and the next available opportunity.
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| said by TelecomJunky2:This is exactly why they should have blocked the mergers of Verizon with MCI and SBC with At&t. They both now think they own the backbone too. Thank god for alternatives like sprint and level 3. Lets just hope independent access providers and content providers have the smarts to discontinue their circuit contracts with At&t and MCI and the next available opportunity. Don't thank God too soon. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Verizon, AT&T, BS buy up the likes of Sprint & Level3, etc. And then there won't be any independent internet backbone providers.
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| said by fAcEtIOUs:said by TelecomJunky2:This is exactly why they should have blocked the mergers of Verizon with MCI and SBC with At&t. They both now think they own the backbone too. Thank god for alternatives like sprint and level 3. Lets just hope independent access providers and content providers have the smarts to discontinue their circuit contracts with At&t and MCI and the next available opportunity. Don't thank God too soon. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Verizon, AT&T, BS buy up the likes of Sprint & Level3, etc. And then there won't be any independent internet backbone providers. Well New_Repub I agree with you.You mentioned a very valid point there ^^^^.Any attempt to move in that direction success most likely being the outcome.
Certainly would prove those with the deepest pockets,will stop at nothing to aquire untold power from the bottomless pit of greed.All at taxpayer expense of course.Like pawns in a chess game so are the days of our lives.
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 roamer1sticking it out at you
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Atlanta, GA | reply to TelecomJunky2
said by TelecomJunky2:This is exactly why they should have blocked the mergers of Verizon with MCI and SBC with At&t. They both now think they own the backbone too. Thank god for alternatives like sprint and level 3. Lets just hope independent access providers and content providers have the smarts to discontinue their circuit contracts with At&t and MCI and the next available opportunity. You didn't mention BellSouth, but I suspect the main reason they've been louder than even AT&T/SBC is that they don't own a backbone and pretty much have no network outside the Southeast (meaning no settlement-free peering, etc.)
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roamer1sticking it out at you
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Atlanta, GA | reply to fAcEtIOUs
said by fAcEtIOUs:Don't thank God too soon. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Verizon, AT&T, BS buy up the likes of Sprint & Level3, etc. And then there won't be any independent internet backbone providers. Doubtful. Sprint's wireless operations (Sprint PCS/Nextel) make it impossible for VZ and AT&T/SBC to buy all of the company and extremely impractical for BLS to do so (because they'd have to do something with the 40% of Cingular they own), and while Sprint could sell off or spin off their wireline LD/data business like they're doing with wireline local (Embarq), doing so wouldn't make a lot of sense given the wireless business. Level 3's huge debt load seems to scare possible suitors away.
At this point, I see BellSouth, who has been notably absent from the M&A activity of the past few years, either merging with Qwest or letting AT&T/SBC eat them. Personally, I'd much rather have the former...
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