Hearings are being held in Congress by Ted "Bridge to Nowhere Man"
Stevens on the internet. They appear to be at the behest of the giant
telephone companies.
Big telco execs are on the record:
AT&T’s Ed Whitacre wants consumers and content providers to pay for
use of his network. “The Internet can’t be free … for a Google or
Yahoo or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes free is nuts.”
BellSouth’s William Smith told reporters that he would like to turn
the Internet into a “pay-for-performance marketplace” where his
company could charge for the “right” to have certain services load
faster than others.
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg says that Web applications need to “share
the cost” of the broadband services already paid for by consumers.
“We need to pay for the pipe.”
If you were hoping for continued cheap or cheaper access it may not
happen. You might want to find out more about it and take the action
you think is appropriate.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
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