[Foundation-l] Paying for providing data to customers

Tue Jan 17 17:22:56 UTC 2006

GerardM wrote:
> Hoi,
> The American company BellSouth Corp. wants to have organisations pay
> transport fees for the content they deliver over the Internet.
> http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B02432D2D-1EE0-4037-A15F-54B748D6CF26%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=
> 
> They have even the affront to say that the Internet end users should
> welcome this.
> 
> This mail is perhaps a bit off what we typically discuss on our
> mailing lists, but it may lead to us having sharks like BellSouth
> Corp. knocking on our doors..

Without having read the entire article, it strikes me as odd that the
word 'transit' is not mentioned anywhere.

-- 
Mark

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