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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Block only the ads by codexus · 2002-07-30 22:04 · Score: 5, Funny

The solution is simple: Block the ads from those portals.
That's even worse for the portal and the ISP customers are happy.

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Re:Payola huh... by ArizonaBay · 2002-07-30 23:51 · Score: 4, Funny

Agreed. I want to go back to the good ol' days '90s when internet-based companies didn't care about making money. :)