SBC hints at charge to Web publishers By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Rob Raisch <info () raischfinancial com>
Date: November 1, 2005 2:35:14 PM EST
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Subject: SBC hints at charge to Web publishers By Frank Barnako,  
MarketWatch

SBC hints at charge to Web publishers By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch

Last Update: 1:59 PM ET Nov 1, 2005

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) --- The chief executive of SBC  
Communications Inc. thinks companies doing business on the Internet,  
such as Microsoft Corp. and Vonage Inc., are due for a wake-up call.

"How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a  
broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them," said Ed  
Whitacre in a BusinessWeek Online interview. "What they would like to  
do is use my pipes for free. I ain't going to let them do that."

He argued that because SBC and others have invested to build high- 
speed networks, they are due a return.

"There's going to have to be some mechanism for these people ... to  
pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use  
my pipes?" He offered no details how his idea could be accomplished.

For an Internet company to "expect to use these pipes free is nuts!"  
Whitacre added for good measure.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B5A606A5A%2D18D7% 
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