Google and Microsoft must pay says Verizon CEO

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch on the Internet, according to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, who said Thursday that providers of bandwith-intensive Internet applications, including Google and Microsoft, should "share the cost" of operating broadband networks.
 
I guess they referred to MSN and Google. Their spiders are VERY bandwidth intensive. After all, they download all the web-pages on the internet on a 30-day cycle. Furthermore, applications like Google Earth eats bandwidth like crazy. New music and video services from these two portals will even be more bandwidth intensive. AJAX also saps bandwidth. Microsoft patches and hotfixes pale in comparison!
 
"we need to make sure there is the right economic model," especially in regards to so-called "free" or advertising-supported applications, which generally do not offer any direct compensation to the network service provider.
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Interesting ... so it sounds like this may be more specifically related to the idea of offering "free" Internet connections in exchange for adverting revenue (as that's where Google gets its revenues). Not unlike television, or ad-supported software. So a share of the world's advertising dollars would pay for the bandwidth in this case. I can sort of see the logic of this, although I don't really like the idea. Of course the connection isn't really "free", the costs are just shifted about and hidden, so there is less transparency. I don't think I would like something this to become widespread, but perhaps pay-for ISPs may find themselves struggling to compete with advertising-revenue-driven ISPs at some point in the future as more people are enticed by the notion of 'free' Internet access, and maybe it'll eventually become the default model. Might this not this make the Internet more like television though - less interactive and with more control in the hands of major advertisers and content providers? Hmm. At least with a monthly ISP fee I can see how much I'm really paying and sort of see where it's going.
 
Johand said:
I guess they referred to MSN and Google. Their spiders are VERY bandwidth intensive. After all, they download all the web-pages on the internet on a 30-day cycle. Furthermore, applications like Google Earth eats bandwidth like crazy. New music and video services from these two portals will even be more bandwidth intensive. AJAX also saps bandwidth. Microsoft patches and hotfixes pale in comparison!
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The search spiders don't actually use broadband bandwidth.
 
Aren't we, the end user, paying for the bandwidth? At the end of the day if I decide to open Google Earth and search for a specific location elsewhere in the world, it is coming out of my (paid for) bandwidth.
 
RVFmal said:
Aren't we, the end user, paying for the bandwidth? At the end of the day if I decide to open Google Earth and search for a specific location elsewhere in the world, it is coming out of my (paid for) bandwidth.
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In real country's broadband is uncapped.
 
tibby.dude said:
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch on the Internet, according to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, who said Thursday that providers of bandwith-intensive Internet applications, including Google and Microsoft, should "share the cost" of operating broadband networks.
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He is insane. :cool:
 
antowan said:
He is insane. :cool:
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Actually some telecom companies are now talking about a two tier internet for example Google pay AT&T to have their applications (i.e Google Talk) run unshaped on the AT&T network compared to say Yahoo's or Microsoft's VOIP offerings.

The internet is all about open protocols and the like but since the infrastructure is now owned by these big companies and they can frankly do what the hell they want to do with them and even decide who can run in it on how good it they can run on it.

They are not charities but have a duty to their shareholders to exploit their assets for the most financial gain.

I think it was a sad day when the US govt turned the Internet over to private companies.
 
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