The Big 3 and Their Own Internet

Mathew Everett 13 Apr, 2006 at 1:08pm ET Article published in Tech

Google, eBay and Amazon might build their own wireless internet if the US telcos move to charge them for sending customers to their sites.

AT&T and the telcos have got government backing to charge Google and other Web sites extortion-type fees unless Google and others pay for adequate bandwidth.

It is all industry speculation, but Investor’s Business Daily has indicated that with so much wireless spectrum up for grabs, all the big three have to do is buy it and construct a high-bandwidth wireless pipe into people’s homes and businesses.

Source: The Inquirer

Comments

13 Apr 2006 ~ 2:25pm Garg At first I thought, why are Ford, GM and Chrysler building an internet?
18 Apr 2006 ~ 4:02pm GHoosdum I thought the same thing myself. There can be only one Big Three...
18 Apr 2006 ~ 4:21pm Sledgehammer70 Sorry the Nets Big 3
18 Apr 2006 ~ 4:39pm CB I thought, "Why would Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein need their own internet?"
18 Apr 2006 ~ 4:54pm Thrax (Insert Big Three joke here)
18 Apr 2006 ~ 6:13pm CB

Thrax wrote:

(Insert Big Three joke here)

Bad form, Thrax!
18 Apr 2006 ~ 8:00pm profdlp

Thrax wrote:

(Insert Big Three joke here)

Ok - here you go.