http://www.intomobile.com/2008/05/07/vodafone-chief-vf-not-a-dumb-pipe.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:48:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/05/07/vodafone-chief-vf-not-a-dumb-pipe.html/comment-page-1/#comment-215153 Rex Wed, 07 May 2008 20:35:03 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/05/07/vodafone-chief-vf-not-a-dumb-pipe.html#comment-215153 Doesn't this sort of talk highlight the importance of net neutrality? I believe that both a company and its customers' best interests are served if the company evaluates its every decision from the viewpoint of whether it adds value to the customer or not. Let's say there's a mobile iTunes/Nokia Music Store, that competes with Vodafones' own offering. How does it benefit me as a customer if Vodafone starts demanding a piece of the action from the rival music stores? i.e., what value is Vodafone adding for me by doing so? Let them compete on a level playing field- if their own music store is so great people will come to it of their own accord. Dumb pipe for data indeed. That's EXACTLY how we perceive service providers- just as my electricity and water providers are 'dumb pipes' for the same. I don't pay my electricity company a tax for the appliances that I connect, why should I do the same for my mobile/internet provider? Doesn’t this sort of talk highlight the importance of net neutrality?
I believe that both a company and its customers’ best interests are served if the company evaluates its every decision from the viewpoint of whether it adds value to the customer or not.
Let’s say there’s a mobile iTunes/Nokia Music Store, that competes with Vodafones’ own offering. How does it benefit me as a customer if Vodafone starts demanding a piece of the action from the rival music stores? i.e., what value is Vodafone adding for me by doing so?
Let them compete on a level playing field- if their own music store is so great people will come to it of their own accord.
Dumb pipe for data indeed. That’s EXACTLY how we perceive service providers- just as my electricity and water providers are ‘dumb pipes’ for the same.
I don’t pay my electricity company a tax for the appliances that I connect, why should I do the same for my mobile/internet provider?

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