Google is chocking the Internet
January 24, 2007 Comments:
A bunch of wireless outfits and major telcos are crying the blues over Google’s unfair advantage in the search and ad market place and its domination of their networks. This is all part of the opposition to the new net neutrality legislation that has some major foes including Verizon. William Barr, Verizon's General Counsel. According to David Isenberg’s notes on Verizon official position on net neutrality “Google doesn't want to compete”.
As far as I can tell, all of the telcos and wireless companies providing internet access, music downloads and a whole bunch of other services riding on the backs of the TCP/IP protocol. TCP/IP was developed by the Department of Defense without any contribution from the opponents of this legislation, yet they use the technology freely without paying any royalties either to the tax payers or the Department of Defense. Of course they casually forget to mention this minor detail when they blast Google for using their bandwidth to generate ad revenues.
The bottom line is, the telcos and wireless companies are up against a formidable opponent in Google and they know it, so they have been trying to defeat the legislation through political back door maneuvering to twist the arms of congressman and senators to stop the Network neutrality legislation, I’d say stick it to them Google.
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