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November 06, 2001

David Reed on broadband and

David Reed on broadband and IP transparency. More here. I'm reminded of a P2P conference where the mobile-networks people were talking about per-application-type billing, everyone seemed to think they were in cloud cuckoo land but nobody said so. With the huge sunk cost of 3G licenses, the mobile networks have a real financial need to charge per application, but doing so would wreck the medium-term infrastructure.