There seems to be a lot of fuss on here about charging for bits, but maybe it's not ultimately about that. In time, user choice will decree that bandwidth is commoditised, and shareholder value will no longer be realised from raw bandwidth. Maybe the "GoogleNet" accelerates this.
But in the meantime there is a need to be fast to market as content distributor. Rather than the traditional broadcaster, or the current webtv sites, it seems that the incumbent carriers are waking up to the need to be prevelant in this market.
Further, One could argue that by imposing regulation allowing prioritisation of bits, this gives preference to distributors in (ahem) TV 2.0...
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There seems to be a lot of fuss on here about charging for bits, but maybe it's not ultimately about that. In time, user choice will decree that bandwidth is commoditised, and shareholder value will no longer be realised from raw bandwidth. Maybe the "GoogleNet" accelerates this. But in the meantime there is a need to be fast to market as content distributor. Rather than the traditional broadcaster, or the current webtv sites, it seems that the incumbent carriers are waking up to the need to be prevelant in this market. Further, One could argue that by imposing regulation allowing prioritisation of bits, this gives preference to distributors in (ahem) TV 2.0...