[IP] DO READ Google to consumers: Better you than us from Vint Cerf
*from: SiliconValley.com - Good Morning Silicon Valley
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*Google to consumers: Better you than us:* That Google's got a solution
for everything, doesn't it? During a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee
hearing on Internet neutrality Tuesday
<http://esp.realcities.com/a/hBD6j2NAPnpi4APtV1IABs184.APnpm9Dq/gmsv9>,
Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, suggested incumbent
telecoms, who would like to charge big Net companies a premium price for
premium delivery, look to their own customers to recoup the costs of
bandwidth-taxing Internet services, not the companies who provide them
(see " 'Course what we'd really like to do is 'prioritize' some of these
services right out of business ...
<http://esp.realcities.com/a/hBD6j2NAPnpi4APtV1IABs184.APnpm9Dq/gmsv10>").
"The broadband carriers already are fully compensated by their
residential customers for their use of the network," Cerf said in a
prepared statement (PDF) http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/cerf-020706.pdf
<http://esp.realcities.com/a/hBD6j2NAPnpi4APtV1IABs184.APnpm9Dq/gmsv11>.
"These companies can charge their own customers whatever they want, in
order to make back their investments. Trying to extract additional fees
from Web-based companies -- who are not in any way 'customers' of the
provider -- would constitute a form of 'double recovery.' Google takes
no issue with the broadband carriers' ability to set prices for Internet
access that compensate for the costs and risks associated with their
network investments." So Google and its confederates would have the
telcos pass the cost of high-quality broadband services on to the
consumer. And why not? We already coughed up $2000 per household for a
fiber optic service we never received, why not a few dollars more more
for enhanced broadband (see "We thought you said spend the $200 billion
on "dark fiber"
<http://esp.realcities.com/a/hBD6j2NAPnpi4APtV1IABs184.APnpm9Dq/gmsv12>").
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