In an interview to be published on Thursday in the German weekly WirtschaftsWoche, Deutsche Telekom states that Internet content providers such as Google should pay for using their new super-fast Internet access…
I am not against this rationale entirely, but DT should be careful about what it is wishing for… after all, over the past few years Google has been buying up miles and miles of fibre optic networks which could serve up as its own infrastructure in DT’s place.
Extend Google’s online dominance and over time, DT could be wishing to have Google and other content providers using its infrastructure.
Ironically, DT and its ilk do serve Google and others a form of distribution… note that online especially, there was a time when content providers actually paid distribution partners to access their users (slotting fees that some publishers paid portals for example)…
We shall see…
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