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'Payola Pundit' Picks Fight With Alleged Bandwidth Hog
Tech Daily Dose —
... to use Google's applications who are actually using their own bandwidth -- not Google. To say that Google "uses" consumers' home broadband connections shows "a fundamental misunderstanding of how the Internet actually works," Whitt said. He added that Google already pays billions of dollars for the bandwidth and server capacity necessary to connect data centers and carry traffic to the Internet backbone.
Read Cleland's paper here [PDF] here and more of Google's reaction here.
Net Neutrality Foe Charges Google With Bandwidth Freeloading
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... Internet access costs of $44.0 billion. Thus, Google's 16.5% share of all 2008 U.S. consumer bandwidth usage, is ~21 times greater than Google's 0.8% share of U.S. consumer bandwidth costs -- or an implicit ~$6.9 billion subsidy of Google by U.S. consumers. That number is more or less pulled out of the air, given that Google doesn't actually disclose how much bandwidth it uses. Richard Whitt, Google's Washington Telecom and Media Counsel, made quick work of Cleland's study in a post on its Public Policy blog today, noting that he's paid the phone and cable companies to ...
Is Google Really Using 21x The Bandwidth It Pays For?
Techdirt —
... . First of all, this is simply incorrect. Cleland doesn't know how much Google actually pays for broadband, so he comes up with a small number, which is wrong for a variety of reasons. ...
Linkpost | 12.5.2008
TechBlog —
... - Telco/cable-funded anti-Net-neutrality group accuses Google of using more than its share of bandwidth. Google responds , calling it "payola punditry". • ...
Google Blasts "Payola Pundit" Over Telecom-Funded Study
Tech Observer —
... In a strongly-worded response, Richard Whitt, Google's D.C.-based telecom policy point man, attacked Cleland's credibility, saying because he is paid by the industry, "most people here in Washington take his commentary with a heavy dose of salt." ...
Google Accused of Bandwidth Abuse
Internet Evolution: —
... monthly Internet access costs of $44.0 billion. The report also comments that it is "ironic that Google, the largest user of Internet capacity, pays the least relatively to fund the Internet's cost" and, moreover, ironic that "the company poised to profit more than any other from more broadband deployment, expects the American taxpayer to pick up its skyrocketing bandwidth tab." The study is being dismissed by some (you know, the screaming, sideline, Google fan-types). In a blog , Richard Whitt, Google's Washington telecom and media counsel, says the report is chock full ...
ISP Funded Group Claims Google Isn't Paying Its Fair Share
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... Internet and frankly, it would be interesting to find out how the Internet is being used, but taking usage data from a Cisco report, the a report from the USPTO peer to peer file sharing, search engine and video sharing market share data and a few others, and then coming up with some percentage of total Internet usage is wildly unreliable. What exactlyis the relationship between market share and bits per second consumed? Richard Whitt, Googles Washington Telecom and Media Counsel, response to this so-called research is that that the author, Scott Cleland, is wrongly equating ...
Google defends itself from charges of bandwidth theft, world domination plans
DVICE Atom Feed —
... somehow "uses" consumers' home broadband connections shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how the Internet actually works.
Ouch! Still, with Google rolling out its own web browsers, cell phone interfaces — and even threatening to unleash a fully featured Google operating system — is there any burden the company should bear as an enabler, or is it all fair business? Are we just looking at sour ISPs that want someone to squeeze?
Google Public Blog, via Computer World
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John Battelle's Searchblog —
... I always read the Google Policy blog, find interesting things there. Google is doing a lot of work on policy, and this post, early last month, responding to the telcos' claim that Google is "unfairly consuming bandwidth" was sharply worded and fun to read. ...
