Should Net Companies Pay More for Speed?

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SHOULD NET COMPANIES PAY MORE FOR SPEED?
[SOURCE: BusinessWeek, AUTHOR: Mark Gimein]
A Q&A with Thomas J. Tauke, Verizon's executive vice-president for public affairs, is the company's point person in Washington. Here's some of the language he employs: 1) "what we have been attempting to do as a company is to turn the world upside-down." 2) "what is happening is that we are the insurgents who are trying to come in and change the marketplace, and there are other players out there, some who may have different reputations for being innovative, who are trying to hold on to what they have." 3) Our position on municipal systems has been essentially this: We look at the track record and don't think that the track record is very good. We think taxpayers ought to be fairly concerned about governments investing in these communications networks. We do think that systems should not be subsidized by taxpayers over the long haul, that they ought to pay for themselves, and they ought to play by some of the same rules that [we do]."
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Should Net Companies Pay More for Speed?