April 1, 2004
NY Times: Google Planning to Roll Out E-Mail Service.
The standard industry practice is to offer tiered mail services, providing only limited storage for free and charging higher fees to users who want to preserve larger numbers of e-mail messages. Google, by contrast, is planning a service to be supported by advertising that will permit its users to store very large amounts of mail at no cost.
EE Times: Lucky warns of end-user broadband expectations.
Using the example of Voice Over Internet Protocol's impact on circuit-switched voice service, Lucky said that the telecom market's primary problem is that "no one knows what anything costs." "Telecom may be heading the way of DRAMs, where the price is set by the most idiotic competitor," Lucky said.
News.Com: Court ruling points way to broadband regulation.
In essence, the court said that cable networks' broadband services have an element of telecommunications services in them. The rejection could pave the way for municipalities to force cable companies to share their broadband Internet lines with third parties.
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