On Mon, 15 May 2006, Dustin Goodwin wrote: > Since you seems to work with the cable guys. Is the group think > occurring here that consumers would pay for broadband services if there > were no content providers? That we all just paying to connect to each > other? And content providers need to pay beyond basic peering to provide > content to us? It seems to me that the telcos and cableco have forgotten > we as consumers pay every month to fund the network. That expression > "renting their networks" really gets under my skin. If I and everyone > else didn't pay a hefty sum every month there would be no network. What > do I get out of this? It seems I am investor in network the providers > are going to rent to content companies. When do I start getting paid for > my investment? hello, please to read history of the intarweb. Back in the day, there *were no content providers* even at the time intarweb was mostly commercialized (no nsfnet, etc).
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