'Tiered-Internet' Idiocy Spreads to European Telcoms
A Reuters newsbrief, via The International Herald Tribune, reports that:
Providers of Internet content like video on demand should pay for the use of new super-fast Internet access, the chief executive of Deutsche Telekom said in an interview to be published on Thursday.
In an interview with the German weekly WirtschaftsWoche, Kai-Uwe Ricke said service providers were debating charges to companies like Amazon.com, Google and eBay for offering their services over the Internet.
"These companies need infrastructure," Ricke was quote as saying. "It cannot be that infrastructure providers like Telekom continues to invest, while others profit from it."
A similar discussion is under way in the United States, where broadband providers have largely pledged that consumers will be able to access any Internet site.
posted by Fergie @ 2/22/2006 05:10:00 PM
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