More telco bitching and complaining

Posted on January 31, 2006
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C’mon Ed, why don’t you just do it? Cut off access to content from all those “freeloaders” and tell your consumer customers that they can’t access the content that they want because the content providers are freeloaders who won’t pay AT&T’s tariff.

“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.”
Actually, if you read the full article and are familiar with earlier quotes from this ass Whitacre you see that he’s making a subtle shift from his earlier position that access by content providers (including search engines) should be predicated on paying additional access fees, never mind that these entities are already paying for their T-1’s and the like. Now Whitacre is trying a flanking move by saying these companies should pay a quality of service premium to guarantee acceptable performance, whatever AT&T may define that to be. This is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt to extort higher access fees from the side of the market that is less visible than the consumer side.

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