Saturday, April 01, 2006

Who Owns the Internet?

The internet is free, right? Well, not really.

But, who owns it? I mean, what company could go belly up over night and pretty much ensure that my email is going to crash? The answer: AT&T and Verizon.

AT&T has been a huge piece of the internet for quite some time. They also have their name on the "most connected node" trophy.

H/T: ChocolateChipCookiesRock

1 Comments:

Blogger gbradley said...

What really sparks my interest in this is that a co worker of mine just signed up with Vonage.
I asked him what would happen if a huge amount of people dropped their local phone company and signed up with internet phone service?
He is very smart and told me not to shed any tears for the phone company. I won't.

I guess the phone companies are all merging back together anyhow.

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