[IP] more on interesting comment djf At SBC, It's All About "Scale and Scope"

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Date: October 30, 2005 1:02:41 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] At SBC, It's All About "Scale and Scope"
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com



Dr F:

Here's the part to REALLY worry about:



> How concerned are you about Internet upstarts like Google (GOOG ),
> MSN, Vonage, and others?
>
> 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?


Not a MENTION that it is his customers that are paying for access.

In short, he wants Pay Per View to apply to Internet access,
and since we are rapidly approaching duopoly {at best} in the
last mile [dialup being less and less useful]; that means:

    See what SBC wants you to see, period.

Thomas Payne must be twitching already, and will soon be spinning
in his grave.



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