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Actually, their networks have no value without access to applications. There was a time when these online companies had to pay other companies to develop appli
by sbov 13y ago
Actually, their networks have no value without access to applications.
There was a time when these online companies had to pay other companies to develop applications for their networks. Now they get them for free and want to charge the companies on top of that.
Maybe Facebook's new business model could be charging $$ for "access to their pipes" from ISPs.
- rayiner 13y ago> Actually, their networks have no value without access to applications. Sure, but applications are easier and cheaper to build than pipes. That's the nature of such systems. The step in the chain that's hardest to build with the greatest capital expensive required will have the least competition and thus make most of the profits.
- harryh 13y agoMaybe that should be FB's model. Maybe they could negotiate that with the ISPs. Or maybe not. Why should the US gov't be involved in this business negotiation between two companies?
- chii 13y agoThe gov't should be involved, when those negotiations could potentially form cartels to the detriment of the majority of the population.