calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| reply to kapil
Re: WTF?
said by kapil  :What I don't get, and I mean REALLY don't get, is how these telco execs are confused about the fact that their customers are already paying them for the use of their network. But these are also the geniuses that think we're going to keep paying $50-$100 per month for dial tone...so nothing that comes out of the mouths of these fools surprises me anymore What it really is isn't confusion on the part of the whining Baby Bells, but their effort to confuse policymakers.
Additionally, they want to create a payment stream that continues whether or not they lose individual customers.
At the same time, this "under the table kickback" from the content providers enables the Bells to keep their costs to end users artificially low, thereby depriving cheaper broadband technologies (especially small wireless providers) of the cost advantages they would otherwise enjoy.
calvoiper
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