The New att - Meet the New Boss

Same as the old boss.....
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060131-6089.html

AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre has made a name for himself by making loud and repeated pronouncements about how people and companies are not paying enough for Internet access. First, there was the infamous "our pipes" comment, made last year as a warning to VoIP providers. Next came the blasting of Google and Microsoft for being freeloaders on the Information Superhighway. Now, to complete the hat-trick, Whitacre has clarified his comments by announcing that only half of people's Internet access is being paid for:

"I think the content providers should be paying for the use of the network—obviously not the piece from the customer to the network, which has already been paid for by the customer in Internet access fees—but for accessing the so-called Internet cloud."

I know of people still paying over $500 a month for less then T1 service. Why? Because SBC/att owns the last mile. Hell I get over 1mbps service at my house for $42. Dynamic IP address and server restrictions that the T1 doesn't have, but a $450 difference. There is no excuse for this and yet the clowns running the Bells think they should get more for doing nothing.


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