Bells Fail to Deliver

Here's yet another way to look at the problem with greedy telcos:

"On the Internet bits are bits, but the Bells see bits as services. They want to charge you based on services (movies, songs, phone calls) plus they want to charge the companies whose servers provide these services. In other words they want to be paid twice. And if they're paid twice, they promise, fiber for everyone. Eventually.

The problem is, the Bells have been promising fiber for everyone for a decade and have failed to deliver. While fiber backhaul costs have been declining in line with Moore's Law, and while data radios have been improving in line with Moore's Law, the Bells have been doing, nothing - just banking their profits, buying each other out, lobbying the government."