People Versus Telcos

"According to a Wall Street Journal article, Verizon has agreed to pay about $.50 per subscriber to CBS “for the right to carry its television stations on Verizon's fledgling home TV service…”. The companies themselves have not disclosed the terms of the deal either than to say it is mutually advantageous (gee) but WSJ apparently has sources. Most other media simply carried the bland AP version of the story which did not mention this payment.
No one will hook up to a network without content. In this sense, at&t and other are lucky that service providers like Google and Vonage and Skype provide their content and services on the Internet model which does NOT include charging the network operator. In fact, these services do pay for their own connections to the network. And the availability of content and services is the reason we subscribers pay to hook up. Would you buy general purpose Internet access without Google? Would you buy Internet access on which certain popular websites were slow or where your choice of VoIP providers was restricted? NOT IN A COMPETIVE MARKET."

There are more than one business model to broadcast TV or content to consumers.
One is the traditional TV, in which broadcasters pay frequences to the State ( or bandwidth to the satellite provider) and get paid with commercials or if broadcasted without commercials, the customer has to pay for the content he receives (usually Movies, Sport events, Documentaries).
Besides that the user in Europe still has to pay a fee to the State just because he has the gut to own a TV.
Then we have other two networks.
The Telephone Network in which the users pay to use the lines that belong to the telcos, either for minutes or as a flat fee.
The Internet Network in which the users pay for the use of the line, either per minutes or a flat rate.
The price differs depending on the speed of the connection, that is depending how many people share the same pipe.
The content broadcaster, as in the TV network, pays for the bandwidth he uses to broadcast his content, whatever it can be.
So, legally speaking, the model proposed by the Telcos has NO JUSTIFICATION.
It is like charging twice for the same thing.
I understand that Governments can be on the side of the Telcos: WHEN did they loose a chance to fuck the people????
And this is going to be a big chance.

My proposal:
Let's not look at that shit of TV on the usual network and on the Internet Netwok.
Let's them pay to broadcast, let us build our own content...
Internet users, I know out there is a huge number of artists who can produce much better content than the one they are trying to fill us with...
Let us build a new democratic network, in which there is no place for fucking monopolists, fucking polititians, fucking Murdochs and Belusconis...


Let's begin the WAR!!! WE WILL BE THE WINNER!! WE ARE THE NUMBER!!!
WHAT WOULD TELCOS DO WITH ALL THEIR CONNETTIVITY WITHOUT USERS?