http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/02/01/more-from-ed-whiteacre-on-the-two-tiered-internet/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:32:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/02/01/more-from-ed-whiteacre-on-the-two-tiered-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-1039 robhyndman.com Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:09:32 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/02/01/more-from-ed-whiteacre-on-the-two-tier-internet/#comment-1039 [...] 2. Om parses v2.0 of Ed Whiteacre’s pitch and notices an almost Borg-like adaptability to his arguments. SBC / AT&T’s communications people are obviously watching the MSM (and the blogosphere??) carefully and have picked upon the criticism of the “pay me twice” aspect of the telecom industry’s pitch. The latest iteration runs like this: I think the content providers should be paying for the use of the network – obviously not the piece from the customer to the network, which has already been paid for by the customer in Internet access fees – but for accessing the so-called Internet cloud. [...] [...] 2. Om parses v2.0 of Ed Whiteacre’s pitch and notices an almost Borg-like adaptability to his arguments. SBC / AT&T’s communications people are obviously watching the MSM (and the blogosphere??) carefully and have picked upon the criticism of the “pay me twice” aspect of the telecom industry’s pitch. The latest iteration runs like this: I think the content providers should be paying for the use of the network – obviously not the piece from the customer to the network, which has already been paid for by the customer in Internet access fees – but for accessing the so-called Internet cloud. [...]

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