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LiamJunket
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join:2002-03-03
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| Re: Net Neutrality debate crosses the Pond But the BBC even admits they are causing a problem. So it isn't just ISP whining.
A senior insider at BT added: "It is certainly a live debate between ISPs [internet service providers] and the BBC. If the BBC gets the numbers it wants for iPlayer then network capacity could become an issue."
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deadi
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Perry, OH
1 edit | ISPs are only supposed to provide access as far as I understand. Sounds like shoddy service to me regardless of what the BBC thinks. | |
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MemphisPCGuy
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join:2004-05-09
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| $200 Billion Rip Off I hope this exposé gets a few fires lit under somebodies butt. While I understand its the nature of Big Business... when the taxpayer is the customer being taken for a ride there has got to be a way to protect ourselves. Surely by the time they got to $1 Billion... heck even $50 Billion... somebody knew the wheels were coming off the wagon.
It seems fleecing the government is a business unto itself.
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LiamJunket
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|  Re: $200 Billion Rip Off
Over the decade from 1994-2004 the major telephone companies profited from higher phone rates paid by all of us, accelerated depreciation on their networks, and direct tax credits an average of $2,000 per subscriber for which the companies delivered precisely nothing in terms of service to customers. That's $200 billion with nothing to be shown for it. This is nothing but an unsubstantiated number made up by Cringley. It bolsters his argument, but he shows no proof whatsoever.
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MemphisPCGuy
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| Re: $200 Billion Rip Off Point taken... of course, if the only people that can substatiate it are the ones that profited most by it, chances are slim to none that will happen I guess 
Thanks for the heads up. I am not aware of Cringleys track record, if there is one, but your reply suggests there is.
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| said by LiamJunket  :This is nothing but an unsubstantiated number made up by Cringley. It bolsters his argument, but he shows no proof whatsoever. He provides links... You just have to look for them. He doesn't embed them in the actual article.
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clubs: | Your right. No proof.
It's probably a lot more then $200 billion. | |
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