Verizon CEO: "We will find them and we will charge them something else."

 

I mentioned Mr. Ivan Seidenberg session at the Council of Foreign Relations few days ago (see "FCC's Net Neutrality, R.I.P (Part II)" - here). Now, that the full session's transcript was published (here - Video - here) we get more, stronger, statements on Verizon non-Net Neutrality plans.

Here is a one paragraph (there is lot more!):

"But when we now go after the very, very high users, the ones who camp on the network all day long every day doing things that -- who knows what they're doing -- those are the --



MURRAY [Alan S. Murray, Deputy Managing Editor and Executive Editor, Online, Wall Street Journal] : It's video, right? I mean, it's video.


SEIDENBERG: But those are the people we will throttle and we will find them and we will charge them something else. Now, the dilemma we have is that government will come in and say well, I'm not sure we want you to do that.


MURRAY: Net neutrality. We want --


SEIDENBERG: Net neutrality could be used against that. So the issue is, to answer the question is we don't want to have a linear pricing scale. We do want to find a way to give the majority of people value for bundles, but we have to make sure we find a pricing plan that takes care of that 10 percent that's abusing the system. And it's that simple. And therefore you have to have rules, give us discretion to run our business. Net neutrality could negate the discretion to run your business, and -- if you take it to its ultimate extreme. So that's just an example."