TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet -- Wash Post

Re: The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet -- Wash Post

Michael Chance (mchance@swbell.net)
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:46:24 GMT

In article <telecom25.36.9@telecom-digest.org>,
william_warren_nonoise@speakeasy.net says:

> Since the Internet, by its very nature, concentrates power at the
> endpoints, the former monopolists are floating trial balloons to see
> if the public will stand for them finding a new way to gouge the
> consumer.

However, the "power at the endpoints" isn't very much if you can't get
anyone to carry your traffic to the rest of the net. If others can't
connect to your content, your "endpoint" has all the "power" of an
expensive typewriter.

Michael Chance

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