 morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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Re: lol Apparently you are unable to make accurate comparisons. ISPs don't need to demand that Google open up their advertising system. ISPs are free to sign up and create their own ad campaigns within the existing system Google provides. That's just what Google has done: create products people use under the existing internet framework. AT&T hates this because they want a cut of the truckloads of money so now they claim that Google is getting a free ride and kills babies and supports al qaeda. Really ridiculous claims that anyone in the technology field knows is bullshit. But, they are used to getting their way so they fund astroturf organizations and pr campaigns against Google. They also continue the legislative lobbying. Thy are really good at that part.
Google isn't an ISP. They marked their territory in the city where their headquarters is by offering free wifi. It was a slap in the face to AT&T/PacBell (I believe), but that's about it. |
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 kmb40
join:2004-08-02
Fort Washington, MD | As someone working from the belly of a Telco today, I think you are making some valid points about Google and Telco's.
Maybe Google is trialling the Mountain View wifi service so they can learn how to do it properly before going national. True its been a a while but maybe they are willing to spend the time to do it right!
I know this is a foreign concept to telco bell heads because they remember a time they had unlimited budget, unlimited resources and no competition. That day is dead. Time to play ball and put customer experience before profit OR collapse and die.
Cough = GM. Lol. |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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said by morbo:AT&T/PacBell (I believe) ... Never heard of them. SBC bought PacBell (The Pacific Telesis Group, actually) well before AT&T sold off their cable enterprise to Comcast (ATTBI). There hasn't been a connection between AT&T and PacBell since 1984. SBC absorbed the PacBell brand in 2002, well before SBC bought AT&T. By the time SBC rebranded as AT&T, PacBell (and Ameritech, and SNET, and Prodigy) were mere memories of past services).
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Norman
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | reply to morbo
You need to abide by Google's rules to use their ad network....not much different than following the ISPs' rules to use their networks. FWIW, I didn't support the belief that Google has a "free ride" and that they need to share their profits with the network providers any more than they already do.
I realize Google isn't an ISP, but that idea that it would or could be was a genesis for this thread. |
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