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Failed business plan redux: 'We'll make more money one way or another,
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:37:29 GMT
Evil greedy ISPs. :-) It would appear that if the telcos get blocked from charging the content providers, they'll just turn around and charge their customers -- based on traffic valoume. That's right: it looks like they're kicking around the idea of usage-based billing again. This time for broadband subscribers. First: 'Senate Bill to Address Fears of 'Tiered' Access to Net' http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/02/technology/02online.html Then: 'U.S. Broadband Providers Looking to Implement Usage-Based Billing?' http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/02/technology/bandwidth/index.htm - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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