[Wikipedia-l] Paying for providing data to customers

Tue Jan 17 21:46:48 UTC 2006

On 1/17/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> 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.
>

Seems to me like they're just trying to offer an additional service
(faster, more reliable) on top of the ones they already offer.  I
don't see the big deal.

Anthony