Fishie
join:2003-01-14
Riverside, CA
4 edits | ISP Residential Gateway
I think they are already headed towards these types of services. They already offer telephone (VOIP) and television. It's only natural that they will come up with more services...like controlling consumer's appliances. After all, a lot of ISPs are getting their foot in consumer's doors by giving customers free/required gateways. This is why I don't think they need metered billing to make more revenue. They just need more innovation...but that's for another thread.
Of course, eventually, privacy starts to come into question. CALEA states that any telephone switching equipment made after 1994 has to have a backdoor for wire tapping, it makes me wonder?!?!?!? 
I am glad my AT&T's Uverse & City WiFi will protect me from such evils!  |
