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Verizon Threatens Google's 'Free Lunch'
ILikeRed writes to tell us the Washington Post is reporting that Verizon is becoming much more vocal about internet firms using "their" lines to do business without paying extra. From the article: "The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the networks that Google intends to ride on with nothing but cheap servers," Thorne 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." This, as lawmakers are approaching new legislation that could let telcos charge internet companies much more for the use of high speed connections.
This is one of those things that can really make you angry at how stupid people can be, this doesn't sound like anything OTHER THAN FREELOADING. And what makes this shitty proposition even more ironic and their gigantic nuts even more impressive is that these assholes are complaining about how hard it is to deploy an awesome 4-12Mbit "high speed" infrastructure while half of the world has relatively cheap 100mbit connections at home. Why don't they try offering better services instead of bitching and trying to freeload?
I'm curious who you get your throughput from. The best I can get here in St. Louis is about $100/mo/1Mbit. $50 is a vast improvement, obviously. I'd like to compare notes!
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Some how Verizon would find a way to sue them and force them to give it back... they could probably get some female employee to scream sex descrimination or something and get a worthless jury to side with her. McDonalds coffee ALL OVER AGAIN!