How concerned are you about Internet upstarts like Google (GOOG
), MSN, Vonage, and others?
How do you think they're going to get to 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 going to
let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to
have a return on it. So there's going to have 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?
(Commenting off-pseudonym, for once, because there's a
tangential relationship to some real-world stuff I
did once upon a time...)
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