Please never tell me again there is no need for an alternative to the
Cable/Bell broadband duopoloy. /
"If there were any delusions that Ma Bell Wasn't Back
<http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/27/1635247&tid=215>, SBC
CEO Edward Witacre has cleared that up in an interview
<http://www.businessweek.com/@@n34h*IUQu7KtOwgA/magazine/content/05_45/b3958092.htm>
with Business Week Online. When asked about Google, Vonage and other
Internet Upstarts he responded in typical Ma Bell Style: 'How do you
think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable
companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use
my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have
spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going
to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay
for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my
pipes?'."
- Dustin -
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