You can't argue with that. They invest hundreds of millions of dollars in transport and need to get their ROI.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Dustin Goodwin > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 2:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [nycwireless] Not sure about muni-Wifi? Read this > from the SBC chief > > > 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/conte > nt/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 - > > / > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6/152 - Release > Date: 10/31/2005 > > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
