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RE: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a corporate study on the bells)


From: "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:34:31 -0600

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/01/17/1424212.shtml

I think you might be missing the point of this. It sounds crazy and it
is...but it isn't really worded well. The teleco are going to start a
new thing where they charge big companies to attempt a performance
advantage over their opposites. Just like this example, to charge Yahoo
Inc. for the opportunity to have its search site load faster than that
of Google Inc. So Yahoo might look faster if you are on BellSouth..but
it will look normal if you are on Earthlink.

Basically they want to get in the "charging for traffic shaping"
business...that way Yahoo can pay Bellsouth a large amount of money and
Yahoo services will always load faster than Google and MSN, etc,
etc.....only going to hurt internet users overall IMHO however.

-Todd

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