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Re: Comcast, Verizon Wage Licensing War/Towns Caught in Crossfire

harold@hallikainen.com
16 Nov 2005 07:55:13 -0800

I agree that communications carriers should be content neutral. If
they are concerned about bandwidth usage, then meter the bandwidth!
Some telco or cable modem guy (maybe SBC) said something like they
should be charging Google for using their wires. He left out the fact
that WE are paying for the use of the wires, and it should be up to
the customer as to what they want to say over those wires.

Unless network neutrality laws appear, I think that broadband
providers will be able to offer lower prices to consumers by offering
only their content (with advertising revenue) and their communications
services (paid VoIP instead of open standards VoIP). The consumer will
go with it for the initially low price, then be stuck.

Harold

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