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Whether or not you agree with Whitacre, you can understand his frustration.
> Companies like Google and Yahoo pay some fees to connect to their
> servers to the Internet, but AT&T will collect little if any
> additional revenue when Yahoo starts offering new features that take
> up lots of bandwidth on the Internet. When Yahoo's millions of
> customers download huge blocks of video or play complex video games,
> AT&T ends up carrying that increased digital traffic without
> additional financial compensation.
That's a bunch of bull crap. Google, Yahoo, et. al. pay for bandwidth. The fees they pay for network connectivity are based on bandwidth allocation. Now ATT is whining because Google, etc. are actually using the bandwidth that they're paying for.