http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/01/05/verizon-application-providers-should-pay-for-bandwidth/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:30:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/01/05/verizon-application-providers-should-pay-for-bandwidth/#comment-1042 robhyndman.com Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:13:10 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/01/05/verizon-application-providers-should-pay-for-bandwidth/#comment-1042 [...] Where this seems to leave us is that Verizon has been insisting that because bandwidth is scarce and therefore costly it should be able to charge other application providers for access to the cloud. Yet now it appears that Verizon is creating the scarcity itself in order to gain a competitive advantage against those same application providers. Amazon’s POV: The Bells have designed a broadband system that squeezes out the public Internet in favor of services or content they want to provide,” says Paul Misener, vice-president for global policy at Amazon.com. [...] [...] Where this seems to leave us is that Verizon has been insisting that because bandwidth is scarce and therefore costly it should be able to charge other application providers for access to the cloud. Yet now it appears that Verizon is creating the scarcity itself in order to gain a competitive advantage against those same application providers. Amazon’s POV: The Bells have designed a broadband system that squeezes out the public Internet in favor of services or content they want to provide,” says Paul Misener, vice-president for global policy at Amazon.com. [...]

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