The world is on the brink of pouring enormous amounts of data into the Internet -- it's happening already, but, as the saying goes, you ain't seen nothing yet. I believe that the carriers will wake up in 18 to 24 months and recognize that when the world is pouring data down your pipe, being a dumb pipe isn't such a bad thing. And, for sure, harvesting the data load of a zillion innovators is bound to be more fruitful than being limited to harvesting the data load that you can create.
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The world is on the brink of pouring enormous amounts of data into the Internet -- it's happening already, but, as the saying goes, you ain't seen nothing yet. I believe that the carriers will wake up in 18 to 24 months and recognize that when the world is pouring data down your pipe, being a dumb pipe isn't such a bad thing. And, for sure, harvesting the data load of a zillion innovators is bound to be more fruitful than being limited to harvesting the data load that you can create.