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An addendum to yesterday's post on Google -- Verizon criticized Google as a free rider yesterday:
"The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the networks that Google intends to ride on with nothing but cheap servers," [John Thorne, a Verizon senior vice president] told a conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. "It is enjoying a free lunch that should, by any rational account, be the lunch of the facilities providers." Google's Vint Cerf rejoins:
"My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place." PFF's Kyle Dixon testified on this debate over "net neutrality" this morning.
posted by James DeLong @ 12:00 PM | Telecom
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