said by Jaghar:It really sounds like the telecoms want a system similar to what the electric utility industry has gone to because of deregulation.
There are generating companies (providers) and transmission (infrastructure...pipes).
The utility in Illinois wants the utilities in California and Ohio for "shipping" electricity from Ohio to California via their lines.
It's a legitimate issue because the lines in Illinois where probably never designed for cross country "traffic" combined with the local "traffic". That's one of the reasons that transmission is still regulated.
It's very complicated.
Transfer that over to the internet world, and you have at&t upgrading their equipment because of "joes info service" traffic from Comcast. You can bet joe isn't paying at&t for bandwidth, yet at&t suffers a financially.
That's bull because what about "joe info service" traffic from at&t that goes over Comcast's pipes? See it goes both way. That's what you call a push.
at&t isn't suffering anyways. Not when they literally charge 10,000X the actual cost of a text message. not when ther wirless data plans have $503 per GB overage fees. at&T is just fine.
Besides if I can't use the internet for anything there is no point in having it and at&t won't get ANY business.