Tell Hillary to Keep Her Hands Off the Internet!!

Funny Website ^ | June 7, 2006 | FreedomWorks

[Wuli]

No sorry, it is not called the Tony Soprano business model, in fact it is the standard business model of the world. If you don't care when your letter gets to its destination, you put a regular stamp on it. If you want premium delivery service, you pay for it. Which method youi choose depends on the content and the priority, to you, of that content. Yes, many (most) forms of business have multi-tiered, multi-layered business plans, providing different standards of service that reflect the priorties that people place on those services.

If content providers want to radically increase the content volume and technological requirements for that content volume, to "deliver" new prodcuts to their content customers, those companies that provide the systems for delivering that content are, legitimately going to require that those highly lucrative content providing companies pay, directly from their wonderful revenue sources to help fund the developments on the backbone that will make their products possible. Its not a tax, but a legitimate business expense; but it will be a tax on the telecoms alone if you and other socialist minded nerds start trying to regulate it.

Google and Ebay have gotten rich off of your land-line fees to the telecoms which have continued to be the major funding source of the backbone and are now the diminishing source of the revenue that has made the backbone possible. They are now very mature and robust companies who can now afford to pay their own way instead of living off of you.