Archive for June 5th, 2001

INTERNET: NOT FREE. PHONE MONOPOLY: FREE. ANY QUESTIONS?

June 5, 2001

“BT does not have a social-services remit to make broadband Britain work. It cannot work until people realize that the Internet is not for free.”

BT chairman Christopher Bland, on the government-sanctioned U.K. phone monopoly’s lack of obligations to society, The Sunday Times, 3 June 2001