Internet Neutrality
May 6, 2009
The opening quotes for my paper:
How concerned are you about Internet upstarts like Google, MSN, Vonage and others?
How do you think they are going to get customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain’t gonna let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there’s going to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they’re using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? The Internet can’t be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or a Yahoo! for Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes for free is nuts!
- BusinessWeek, November 7, 2005 – O’Connel, 2005
This is not a pipe.
-Foucalt, 1983
