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SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes
acousticiris writes "If there were any delusions that Ma Bell Wasn't Back, SBC CEO Edward Witacre has cleared that up in an interview with Business Week Online. When asked about Google, Vonage and other Internet Upstarts he responded in typical Ma Bell Style: 'How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. 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?'."
This doesn't seem as funny as it used to be.
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Better question: Why the hell should I use SBC's pipes if they're going to be such dickheads about it?
Now I feel better.
Boycott everything - they're all trying to fuck you one way or another
I knew that slashdot was going downhill, but why are they posting stories about CEO drug use? Who really cares who uses which pipe to smoke thier stuff in. It's all about puff puff pass people!
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Plus evil.google.com would probably be in beta for a very long time.
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
Or a record company wanting a piece of iPod revenue because they are using 'their music' on it...oh wait...
Do they want sloppy seconds on the girl I'm chatting up on their lines? I'm afraid my pip take prescedence - even if they want a cut of the action
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
I think Google and all that dark fiber they are buying is going to soon be a "FUCK YOU" response to this guy. OK, we won't use your pipes! Suck on this... get on the web with free WiFi via google.
do you mean evil.google.com:666/?
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Here at the Phone Company we handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to scum of the earth. (snort) We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order [snatches plug out of switchboard], or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make. We don't care. Watch this [bangs on a switch panel like a cheap piano] just lost Peoria. (snort) You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space-age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string. We don't care. We don't have to. (snort) We're the Phone Company!
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All this stuff about broadband and Google is chump change. Why aren't the shareholders of SBC demanding a stop to the free ride for Domino's and Dell and all the other businesses using SBC's phone lines to support their business models? SBC has made a considerable investment in those lines and they have to have a return on it. Do these freeloaders think phone service comes free?
We have to buy all these trucks, and pay drivers for all of these routes. Then these companies come along, and they decide that they can use OUR infrastructure to send THEIR packages. Our service is intended only for sending postcards to granny. If those companies want to use OUR service to facilitate THEIR business, then they better pay m/e/ /a/ /k/i/c/k/b/a/c/k/ us for the priviledge of using our facilities.
Lately it's even come to my attention that people and even businesses in FOREIGN COUNTRIES can send mail through our system. If they don't pay up, we're going to start burning their packages for heating fuel.
Said Bubba "HogLeg" James, upon hearing this news.
sounds like this guy should really lay off the pipe for a while...
"In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women..." -H. Simpson
What are they putting in the water on the executive floor these days?
Greed, which is a bad mix for their existing psychopathic tendencies. They need a commonsense and ethics infusion, stat.
If anyone here is at UUNet NOC, could you do us all a favour and de-peer SBC, that would shut up this idiot CEO quickly, many thanks in advance.
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