Will Providers Provide Equally?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday May 27, 2004 @08:44AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

theodp writes "Imagine the chaos if your power company could take money from Sony so that its appliances got a higher quality of juice - and thus worked a tad better - than those of Mitsubishi. The power system wasn't built that way, but ISPs have that very capability. It may seem like a dodgy competitive tactic, but Yankee Group analysts envision that broadband network providers could give precedence to their own revenue-generating services, possibly leading to the demise of the biggest VoIP player today, Vonage."

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Microsoft does this every day by ThomasFlip · 2004-05-27 08:46 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Integrating IE with windows. Ofcourse buisnesses are going to do this, and why shouldn't they ? It's not good for the consumer, but then again they are out to make money, not win friends.

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Re:solution to everything.. ok maybe not everythin by djwavelength · 2004-05-27 09:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The Pigs?? Nice to know Charles Manson is being allowed to post to Slashdot

From beyond the grave too...