Amazon, eBay, Google Threaten to Build Their Own Internet in Response to Telcos

[mandy]

THE BIG three internet sites Google, eBay and Amazon might build their own wireless internet if the US telcos move to charge them for sending customers to their sites.

AT&T and the telcos have got government backing to charge Google and other Web sites extortion-type fees unless Google and others pay for adequate bandwidth.

Now it seems that Google and the other big sites are going to tell them to go forth and multiply and they will build their own connections into punter's homes...

full article: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30959

Analysts are speculating that Internet and media companies could team up to bid for radio spectrum in order to launch wireless broadband services, as a way around the phone companies.

Rumors that nontelecom companies could bid for wireless spectrum have floated around for a few years. The new speculation focuses on large Internet content firms such as Google, Amazon.com,  and eBay...

By owning their own radio spectrum, Internet and media firms could deliver services to homes via their own wireless broadband pipe. But that's only if they pay the billions of dollars the spectrum is expected to garner at auction, plus build wireless networks...

full article: http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&artnum=1&issue=20060410

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