Podcast: Play in new window | Download (9.7MB)
BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month.
Free Information on EVault 1-866-928-0735
 |
|
SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit
Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter
Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3)
Download today’s show.
If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here.
Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us
SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST
Look! There’s A Rabbit from the Telecoms
by Andrew McCaskey
Big Telecom Takes A Page from RIAA
One of the best ways to defend your poor position is distraction. And that’s what it looks like to me is happening in the Anti-Net Neutrality camp’s release that “Google Isn’t Paying Fair” for the bandwidth that they consume.
The argument is that Google consumes “21 times the bandwidth that they pay for” and therefore is the cause of the lack of investment by local telco’s in higher speed infrastructure, and the reason that individual consumer internet access charges are so high. The only problem is that it’s a total apples to oranges comparison: I feel sure that Google is pretty good at buying bandwidth at wholesale backbone rates, as opposed to the pipes that consumers might ever have any need for.
Maybe it’s like the RIAA that is blaming the failure of their business model on pirated downloads, file sharing, and mobile players. It looks to me like the failure of a “walled garden” consumer delivery, under the control of a Verizon or Qwest is the real issue. Instead of focusing on their own business model for value add, — “Look There’s A Rabbit ! Google runs by providing some services (like easy to use email, expansion to VoIP) that could have been offered by the very voices complaining the loudest.
CES 2008 Coverage for Tech Podcast Network
Joomla Flash Frontend Template
Click to view videos submitted or recommended by other SDR podcast listeners. . .
If you find a YouTube video that pertains to one of our news items, or have produced an item that would be of interest to SDR listeners, please send us the link slashdotreview{at}gmail.com
Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com!
Be sure to sign up for our upcoming roundtable. We will be using GoToMeeting. Also, be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable.
- Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH
- Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH2
- .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3
- More blogs about SlashdotReview…
- Slashdot Review by Email – Sign up here:
