Wired News: Building the Internet Toll Road
Whether they tier their service, telecommunications companies need to expand capacity. To do so costs money, and the telecoms argue that internet users will have to pay, one way or another. They say it's preferable that the money come from those who need and are willing to pay for better service, rather than spreading the cost out over all users.
"We do have to recover the cost for building the new capacity out there that the content providers are expecting us to provide," said Jim Cicconi, AT&T's senior executive vice president of external and legislative affairs.
The Jeff Pulver Blog: Guest Blogger: Bruce Kushnick - Net Neutrality is Hogwash...:
Even Senator Ensign quoted herein, "We don't have the financial incentives for networks being built."
This is all hogwash. America is 16th in broadband and falling. Our current services are inferior to Korea and Japan who are delivering bi-directional 100 Mbps services for $40 bucks. (FIOS is 30 mbps top speed at $199.)
But worse --- You were lied to. That's right. You see, customers funded fiber optic networks they never received, to the tune of $2000 per household -- about $200 billion. By 2006, 86 million households should have had a fiber optic based service capable of 45 Mbps in bi-directions, that could handle over 500 channels of programming.
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