Comments on: Google the ‘freeloader’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:53:48 +0000

I think market forces have worked out very well.

This is one case where I don’t see a problem.

My access to the internet costs more than my web site.

Both I think are bargain.

If there is a problem…I’d like to see the least amount of tinkering by people in washington. Considering how many are under investigation we can only assume the answer will come from the highest bidder / briber.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:46:16 +0000

Hey…I can’t fix every dumb mistake verizon makes.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:15:30 +0000

> If Verizon wants a piece of the google pie they should buy stock in the company.

The problem with that is that Google stock hasn’t been doing too well lately.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:12:05 +0000

Oh, come on.

If a network provider wants to recap on their investment, then they should charge their subscribers, not the service providers who have nothing to do with them. Would it be fair if Microsoft had to pay Verizon for access to their subscribers if their ISP is Level 3?

No, it’s not.

Let the subscribers, webhosting services, and websites pay their own providers for access, just like it is now. I run a website myself, and I cannot afford to pay every single ISP out there for access to their network. This means that if network neutrality laws are not enacted, then small people like me will be locked out of the internet.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:43:15 +0000

It’s good that Verizon sent a person to make the case for the company’s openly greedy mindset, so that will encourage the lawmakers to pass a network neutrality law rather than leaving it up to market forces.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 06:46:42 +0000

Maybe another move by Google makes more sense now. Another article in the past mentioned that Google was considering buying up the dark fibre. That fibre laid previously that isn’t now in use and didn’t pay off for the owners financing those laying down projects. I would say to those such as Verizon to be very careful what they are asking for or they may find themselves on the recieving end of paying yet more to access Googles’ property rather than the other way around. I would suspect that if that came to be those same ones crying over what is going through their lines would be again crying foul.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:42:24 +0000

This makes about as much sense as the record companys believing they are entitled to a share of iPod player sales. If mean spirited corporate greed was water it would be time to start building an ark.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 23:21:26 +0000

I guess that $40 I just sent to the cable company wasn’t lunch enough for the providers.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:12:41 +0000

How fucking stupid could these execs get?

Google pays for multiple gigabit transit connections to multiple ISPs, they pay out HUGE every month. Just like everyone else in the business. I fail to see how they are free-riding.

Everyone and everything that connects to the internet has to PAY an ISP to get that connection, and then that ISP buys a connection from a tier-1 or 2 access provider. NOBODY IS FREERIDING.

These people need to either get a clue or get the fuck out of the internet backbone game and let the real companies take over, like Cogent and WCG and all the real companies that are more than just glorified cell-phone salesmen.

Of course, since this exec is trying to argue his false logic to congress, which currently consists of some of the biggest intellectual cowards and half-wits ever to be put into office, I’m sure these ridiculous arguments will find an audience.

The whole thing reeks of simple profit-envy among the suits.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:09:29 +0000

Excuse me but aren’t the customers paying for access to google’s content? You can’t get paid twice, you either have to charge the companies or the customers, not both!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:47:30 +0000

>>Google, Yahoo and other such Net services should pay for “preferred >>access to consumers over such lines,” says Verizon, which is, >>”spending billions of dollars to construct a fiber-optic network around >>the country for delivering high-speed Internet and cable TV services”.

These companies create the demand for Verizon’s products. This is nothing more than bottom line envy.

If Verizon wants a piece of the google pie they should buy stock in the company.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:30:52 +0000

Reminds me of an old James Coburn movie “The Presidents Analyst” where the super villian turns out to be the phone company.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:12:26 +0000

idiot