Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Net Neutrality Escalation – Telefonica Considers Charging Google

We continue to see the real issues behind Network Neutrality. Is the carrier a dumb pipe – or should it enjoy some of the revenues, in return for building and maintaining the network? 

Back in 2005, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre famously told BusinessWeek, "What they [Google, Vonage, and others] would like to do is to use my pipes free. But I ain't going to let them do that…Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?"


Now it’s Telefonica “ .. President Cesar Alierta said companies like Google use a lot of network bandwidth for free, something which was good for them but not for Telefonica” . More here.

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