Tie This News Into Net Neutrality… I know someone can.
AT&T and Cisco: A Bandwidth Bonanza
It isn’t new news, having been published December 26th, 2007 but this is the first I’ve seen it.
“When AT&T went shopping for high-tech gear to soup up its communications network with advanced video, broadband, and voice services, it turned to long-time supplier Cisco Systems. On Dec. 10 the nation’s largest telco announced a deal that could be worth up to $500 million to Cisco over the lifetime of the upgraded AT&T network, according to Jim Kelleher, an analyst at Argus Research.
What’s noteworthy isn’t simply the size …read more

Andy Davidson calls it – “I don’t want an internet dominated only by companies with deep pockets.”
I might like to change that personally to “I don’t want an internet dominated only by monopolistic Telcoms.”
Healthy competition Scott – healthy competition. I know the research has been done, I’ve read yours, I don’t have another. I’ll find others but reality is that the “competition” people like Scott Cleland speak of is actually managed and controlled by the larger Telcoms therefore they aren’t true, healthy competition.
More Thoughts;

I can just feel the bristling of the hairs on the back of Ed Whitacre’s neck!
Opening with what I personally consider a very interesting comment on the availability of the Internet “It strikes us as unfair that some people should enjoy such abundant access to this rich resource while billions of others aren’t so lucky” the Official Google Blog states, in their article “Our commitment to open broadband platforms”
So today, we’re putting consumers’ interests first, and putting our money where our principles are — to the tune of $4.6 billion. Let me explain.
In the U.S., wireless spectrum for mobile phones …read more