Sunday, February 27, 2011

Google as "Dangerous" as AT&T?

Optus CEO Paul O’Sullivan thinks content monopolies can be just as troublesome as access network monopolies. O’Sullivan, whose firm has battled incumbent
Telstra for more than a decade, said that while gatekeepers in the broadband access or voice areas still are important, he also can foresee much greater risks in the longer term in the application provider area.

Content and application monopolies can be just as troublesome as network access monopolies, he said.

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