Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

LikeRed writes to tell us the Washington Post is reporting that Verizon is becoming much more vocal about internet firms using "their" lines to do business without paying extra. From the article: "The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the networks that Google intends to ride on with nothing but cheap servers," Thorne told a conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. "It is enjoying a free lunch that should, by any rational account, be the lunch of the facilities providers." This, as lawmakers are approaching new legislation that could let telcos charge internet companies much more for the use of high speed connections.

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1. Google pays (out the ass I wager) for their bandwidth. You, through peering agreements carry their traffic to your customers, who pay for their bandwidth
2. The presence of things like Google and iTunes on the Internet add (the only) value to your service (arguably the only one it has). You should be kissing their ass and thanking them for providing something compelling to make people want to take the sodomising we get in the States for broadband service vs everywhere else in the world
3. You need to suck it up and realize you are in a commodity business now. Frankly, telecom in the US should become a government activity, if we aren't at least going to treat you fucks like the localized monopolies you are. All the nations that still have a PTA have a much more modern telecom system than we have.
4. Why don't you have a piping hot cup of shut the fuck up.