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SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes
By Larry Hendrick | October 31, 2005
I wondered how the RBOCs would react to some of the new technology of VoIP and the competitors coming along and taking customers from them on their own networks. Well, the cat is out of the bag, as they day…
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“If there were any delusions that Ma Bell Wasn’t Back, SBC CEO Edward Witacre has cleared that up in an interview with Business Week Online. When asked about Google, Vonage and other Internet Upstarts he responded in typical Ma Bell Style: ‘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?’.”
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