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Monday, April 17, 2006 12:00 AM

The corporate toll on the Internet

Telecom giant AT&T plans to charge online businesses to speed their services through its DSL lines. Critics say the scheme violates every principle of the Internet, favors deep-pocketed companies, and is bound to limit what we see and hear online.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Monday, April 17, 2006 09:07 AM

    Why should I care?

    I will continue to enjoy all the internet goodness I have now, plus get my 100 channels of digital hidef TV on my existing cable.

    If anyone should be upset by this, I would think it would be cable operators. Whereas today, cable companies get to choose and organize menus of content, with paid fiber delivery, won't consumers ultimately dicate their own choice of channels?

    I don't see any other killer app for fiber that I should be worried about giving up control of the content. Either AT&T will price fiber delivery so that I can get my Disney Channel fo' cheaper, or they will offer new channels I can't buy from my cable company, or I will just continue to get my Disney Channel through the cable (which, of course, is also AT&T :)

    Jason

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