pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes
said by chesney09  :I'd swear.. everyone is already paying for access to those pipes.. . I pay a monthly fee just like anyone else that has internet access.. be it business, residential, etc.. We all have to pay for the access to the Information Super highway.. Some of us require faster speeds and more bandwidth, which is reflected in the price! No kidding. I am surprised Whitacre's comments haven't sparked a shareholder revolt. This kind of posturing might make AT&T's broadband investments worthless!
I have a small personal website and I am damned sure that I will never pay a nickel to any ISP for the privilege of their customers to see it. I pay for hosting. As far as I am concerned, that's all I should have to pay.
I really do hope that content providers grant AT&T's wish. Companies like Google, Yahoo, Vonage, etc. should degrade traffic to customers from AT&T-owned IP addresses, and/or redirect web requests from those IPs to pages which advertise alternative ISPs.
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| Exactly. You pay for hosting (just like all the other big content providers) and, in turn, your hosting ISP pays whoever it is that connects them for their own bandwidth. The way AT&T and all the other incumbents talk, it's like the content providers are getting totally free and open access to their pipes which is a load of crap. All this boils down to is the fact that they want to find any way they can to milk shakedown squeeze a few extra million out of people and other companies. |
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dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH | Of course they're not getting totally free and open access to the pipes. They're getting free and open access to the _TUBES_. Don't you keep up on current events?  |
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ib50MbSoon
Formerly TwoKDialup
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Coloma, MI
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
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Whitacre complained that “some people” want AT&T to act as a “dumb pipe that just keeps getting bigger and bigger." Hey Ed, if you wonder why people are expecting SBC/AT&T to act like a big dumb pipe, maybe you should look in the mirror!
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