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Commentary: Telcos Playing with Fire

Posted by tadelste on · 3 comments
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The telcos have been making threatening noises about Net traffic passing through their lines. Despite rumors to the contary, Google says they aren't negotiating with the telcos. This has been rumbling around the Net for a couple of months. Recently Verizon announced their intent to prevent the proposed "network neutrality" which currently prevails. So far, it's been voluntary, but Congress appears set to consider codifying it in legislation. Verizon and friends are fighting to charge for Net access at both ends. A quick reading is all it takes to realize this is no more than Google envy. As one wag said somewhere, if it were really about bandwidth, they'd be going after iTunes, streaming video and other serious bandwidth hogs. Instead, they are going after a service which sends little more than text and a few tiny images, but happens to make millions doing it. This is transparently petty envy. Perhaps the telcos need to revisit their economics classes.

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Comments (3)

jsusanka ·
might as well be called ms-sbc or ms-att

they are so in bed with microsoft they will go after any of microsoft's enemies.
tadelste Story submitter ·
That's interesting, but when they installed my DSL lines, the tech that came over said that they pay extra for people with Linux skills. So, I gave him a couple of distros to try. He wanted to know of a good book and asked lots of questions. He said that his best way of moving up in the company was to learn Linux.

When I placed a tech call to get my router partitioned, the level 2 support tech was a Linux guy.
jimf ·
tadelste, I get the same kind of service with the RR service and installation guys. Never a problem and they actually seem to pay better attention to what you tell them. Linux is definitely having a positive impact, at least on the service end of these companies.

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