[jjacob]

Where did you get those figures? Last I heard their net worth was around $90 billion. Anyway, I do understand your point of view, and I'm not out to portray the telcos as some evil empire run by Darth Vader himself, I'm just saying it's not wise for them to go through with this scheme just for short-term profits (again, stock price anyone?). As I said, they should have anticipated that they would not get an immediate return on investment from these infrastructures, and in the long run, it'd be bad for the internet to turn into one big pay-per-view service, where the consumer would have to pay for his connection, then for his use of the search engine, and finally for the use of a website where he was looking for. In turn, this would be bad for the telcos too.

[playing_games]

Originally Posted by jjacob

Where did you get those figures? Last I heard their net worth was around $90 billion.

Google's trading at about $390 a share right now.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG

[jjacob]

Originally Posted by playing_games

Google's trading at about $390 a share right now.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG

Man I wish I'd gotten some of those shares back when they were about four times cheaper, but when Google hit the NASDAQ the shares were for US citizens only

[john238]

That has also disturbed me a little as I earn my lifelyhood of the internet. With out the Internet and it's visitors I would have no money coming in. My online busines has taken me 4 years to build up and it has been a ruth ride doing it.

Originally Posted by Mira

That is one of the most disturbing things I've read recently...

[dsgirl]

Originally Posted by jjacob

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester


Three words: Money-grubbing bastards

internet subscribers might get rally, so what do you think is the best to do?









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