Excellent post in PaidContent about how the issue of Telcos charging for pipes is being explained through different freaming techniques:
"A USA Today ... framing shifts the tone of the discussion; the telecoms are doing consumers a favor by adding more access charges. It leaves a different aura when the argument starts off based on the telecoms' desire to recoup investments. versus...
Another article in today's Washington Post picks up on Verizon SVP John Thorne's comments at a lunch celebrating the 10th anniversary of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. It is time, he told the audience, to end Google's free lunch. "The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the networks that Google intends to ride on with nothing but cheap servers. ... It is enjoying a free lunch that should, by any rational account, be the lunch of the facilities providers." That's the pragmatic frame, devoid of any artifice."
