India's ISPs Want Payola from Big Portals

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 30, 2002 @06:48PM from the tell-you-one-thing-slashdot-ain't-payin dept.

knorthern knight writes "Story on The Register. America's biggest content providers could face a toll to enter India cyberspace, if plans mooted by the Indian ISP trade association bear fruit. Although the Internet Service Providers Association of India is split on the issue, several of the larger ISPs want to block access to eBay, MSN or Yahoo! unless the prociders pay a toll. 'In order to increase revenue streams we should ask [the portals] to pay if they want traffic on their sites from India,' reports the Hindustani Times."

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Re:Sheya, right, as if by JakiChan · 2002-07-30 19:14 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Sorry, but are a bunch of Indian programmers gonna buy a car from Yahoo! Autos? Or sign up for Yahoo! Personal? No fucking way. The people that Yahoo cares about are the folks that pay the bills. And I don't think a bunch of Indian programmers fit the description. Face it, there aren't enough consumers there who can afford the stuff advertised for it to be worth the effort.
Fucking computer geeks think they're the center of the damn universe....

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