Telcos Not Playing Nice
Published by James October 31st, 2005 in Corrupt, FutureA great response by techdirt to an article in Business Week entitiled “At SBC, It’s All About “Scale and Scope”
“Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain’t going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there’s going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they’re using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? The Internet can’t be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment.
Are newspapers going to get their money back for all the printing presses they no longer need? Investment doesn’t always mean return, no matter how many people you know in Texas. 