I pay a lot extra for Speakeasy DSL today because of the unfiltered
services they provide. Of course when Verizon rips out all copper my
choices will be gone. Why anyone... fed, state or municipal is letting
Verizon decommission copper so they can only have monopoly fiber to
everyone is beyond me. I have always felt that government agencies were
fine with telecom monopolies. Just so long as they can broadcast the
impression of being concerned about competition.
- Dustin -
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I'd like to see someone getting more upset about the ongoing outright
censorship on the part of the carrier monopolies. Several carriers
block access to certain IPs, ports and protocols. Im looking at cable
modem carrier companies in particular, for some reason they realy dont
like thier customers using SMTP, or HTTP. Fortuneately those of us who
are in possesion of rackspace and know how to run SLIP over UDP DNS
datagrammes, or savy enough to setup an account at HE.net can bypass
this rotten censorship. But why should we have to? How is the non-savy
end user even suposed to know how to solve this problem?
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Dustin Goodwin wrote:
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:08:05 -0500
From: Dustin Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [nycwireless] Google: We Won't Pay Broadband Cyberextortion
January 18, 2006
Google: We Won't Pay Broadband Cyberextortion
BellSouth and Verizon have been trying to force big Web sites to pay
extortion-type fees
<http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/01/bellsouth_cyber.html>if
the sites want adequate bandwidth, with Google a prime target. But
Google has news for them: It won't pay.
Google told Networking Pipeline's Paul Kapustka in no uncertain terms
that it won't give in to the cyberextortion. And despite reports to
the contrary, Google says, it isn't talking with any carriers about
the issue.
Google's Barry Schnitt told Paul in an email: "Google is not
discussing sharing of the costs of broadband networks with any
carrier. We believe consumers are already paying to support broadband
access to the Internet through subscription fees and, as a result,
consumers should have the freedom to use this connection without
limitations."
Google has that absolutely right. We're all already paying through
the nose for Internet access, especially compared with the low access
prices in the rest of the world. Good for Google for standing up to
this cyberextortion.
The BellSouths and Verizons of the world should focus on offering
better services at lower prices -- not trying to fine-tune the Tony
Soprano business model. That's been tried already, by a company you
may have heard of, called Enron. And look where it got them.
Posted by Preston Gralla at 11:16 AM | Permalink
<http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/01/google_we_wont.html>
http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/01/google_we_wont.html;jsessionid=MEM0JX0NOBYLYQSNDBOCKHSCJUMEKJVN
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