Verizon looks for income on both sides of the web page

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Mark @ Jan 6th 2006 8:23PM

"But who pays for the pipe that provides all of this great stuff?"

We pay for it, through the monthly fees we pay to get Internet connectivity. You're acting like companies like Google and Yahoo are stealing access. Telecomm companies invested in laying fiber because they intended to charge customers fees in order to get their data through those pipes. And why are we willing to pay those fees? Because companies like Google and Yahoo are providing services that we want to access. Those companies provide the value of Verizon's network. So why should the charges flow both ways? Verizon should count themselves lucky that they don't have to pay Google and Yahoo for the right to connect their customers to those services.

You're either profoundly ignorant or a corporate troll.

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