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March 04, 2006

Is Telecom The New Big Oil?

We're addicted to oil, we're addicted to information.

Internet providers like AT&T and BellSouth have recently said they want to see high-volume Web services (Google, Skype, Yahoo!, etc) pay a premium for their current position on the Web. Any company that doesn’t pay the premium will have their traffic slow exponentially. Such a system, critics argue, will drastically reduce the open nature of the Web by squashing smaller Web services. The biggie sites would likely have to pass costs off onto users.

 

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Is Telecom the new Big Oil?

Posted on March 4, 2006 08:43 PM by bellso433.
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