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11/1/2005
From an interview with SBC CEO Edward Whitacre:
How concerned are you about Internet upstarts like Google (GOOG ), MSN, Vonage, and others?
“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?”
To answer Whitacre, the answer is simple, and direct. You should allow them to use your pipes because that’s the destination that I’ve chosen to get to. And I’m your customer, the one who’s paying for those pipes.
Whitacre seems not to grasp the fact that the Internet is a network of networks. He’s telling his customers in this quote that if you’re a customer of SBC, and you want to recieve content from someone who’s not a customer of SBC, you’re going to be shit outta luck.
The concept is simple. I, the end user customer, pay SBC to move my packets, and any packets I request to be sent to me, from point A (my location) to point B (the location where the content resides). No more, no less. If I request a page from Google, it’s not Google using SBC’s pipes for free. It’s me, the customer, who pays for my pipe every month, using those pipes. You would think that, as simple as this concept is, the CEO of a multibillion dollar company could grasp it.
Read the whole interview here: http://www.businessweek.com/@@n34h*IUQu7KtOwgA/magazine/content/05_45/b3958092.htm
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