DO READ Google to consumers: Better you than us from Vint Cerf

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

*from: SiliconValley.com - Good Morning Silicon Valley

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*Google to consumers: Better you than us:* That Google's got a solution 
for everything, doesn't it? During a  U.S. Senate Commerce Committee 
hearing on Internet neutrality Tuesday 
<http://esp.realcities.com/a/hBD6j2NAPnpi4APtV1IABs184.APnpm9Dq/gmsv9>, 
Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, suggested incumbent 
telecoms, who would like to charge big Net companies a premium price for 
premium delivery, look to their own customers to recoup the costs of 
bandwidth-taxing Internet services, not the companies who provide them 
(see " 'Course what we'd really like to do is 'prioritize' some of these 
services right out of business ... 
<http://esp.realcities.com/a/hBD6j2NAPnpi4APtV1IABs184.APnpm9Dq/gmsv10>"). 
"The broadband carriers already are fully compensated by their 
residential customers for their use of the network," Cerf said in a 
prepared statement (PDF) http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/cerf-020706.pdf 
<http://esp.realcities.com/a/hBD6j2NAPnpi4APtV1IABs184.APnpm9Dq/gmsv11>.  
"These companies can charge their own customers whatever they want, in  
order to make back their investments. Trying to extract additional fees 
from Web-based  companies -- who are not in any way 'customers' of the 
provider -- would constitute a form of 'double recovery.'  Google takes 
no issue with the broadband carriers' ability to set prices for Internet 
access that compensate for the costs and risks associated with their 
network investments." So Google and its confederates would have the 
telcos pass the cost of high-quality broadband services on to the 
consumer. And why not? We already coughed up $2000 per household for a 
fiber optic service we never received, why not a few dollars more more 
for enhanced broadband (see "We thought you said spend the $200 billion 
on "dark fiber" 
<http://esp.realcities.com/a/hBD6j2NAPnpi4APtV1IABs184.APnpm9Dq/gmsv12>").
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