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| Time for the other big companies to fight back The companies dependent on open pipes, such as Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, and so on, are going to have to be the ones to fight this. To many of us, this is looking more anti-trust all the time, but unless someone starts up a class action lawsuit against AT&T, there's little we, the customer, can do.
However, based on what's happening with cellphone companies, I do expect class action lawsuits, and I expect to see AT&T, Time Warner, et al, hauled into court for anti-competitive activities. The only missing pieces are the remaining bigger cable and other telcos that haven't ostensibly started capping yet.
Still, I don't think that Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, et al should be dependent on the consumers fighting their battle. Unless they're willing to step up, people are going to be buying their high bandwidth goods, not and risk paying $1 per GB, which is a deliberately inflated cost. | |
Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | The article states the obvious "Like many ISPs, AT&T and Time Warner Cable are preparing for a future where competition from Internet video threatens their TV revenues. Through caps and more specifically metered billing, carriers understand that down the road -- they'll be able to monetize and/or deter the use of video content that isn't theirs, giving them a huge leg up in the Internet video battles yet to come."
IOW, the purpose of these these low caps by AT&T is clearly to restrain trade. When they start acting anti-competitive it's time to break up AT&T again. | |
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