American Telcos Set Good Example For The Rest Of The World
from the how-do-you-say-money-grubbers-in-esperanto? dept
As American telcos’ efforts to undermine network neutrality continue, word comes that now Deutsche Telekom thinks making content providers pay up is a good idea, too. It will be interesting to see how the argument plays out in Germany, since Deutsche Telekom was born out of the privatization of the German post office, and it still enjoys certain monopoly protection from the German government (protection the EU says is illegal). Does that sound familiar? There’s some parallels to the situation in the US, where the Baby Bells managed to scam a couple hundred billion dollars from taxpayers with the promise of building an open-access fiber network to every home — a promise they haven’t kept, while they’ve kept the money.
Comments on “American Telcos Set Good Example For The Rest Of The World”
No Subject Given
Can only hope that the powers to be will only allow net neutrality.
If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.
No Subject Given
Its interesting that this seems to happen in countries with the least competitive communications marketplaces. I believe Germany came bottom or near bottom in the Commission’s most recent report on the implementation of their Telecoms Package.
Sarcastic headline
Shouldn’t non-obviously sarcastic headlines be avoided? For a minute there I thought an American telecom company might ACTUALLY be setting a good example. Yes I was skeptical, but thought I might read some good news for a change. Thanks for nothing Carlos.