Micro-Billing, Byte by Byte, Suits the World of Cellphones
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/technology/06cell.html?_r=1&nl=tech&emc=techa1
“There’s been no expectation that anything would be free,” said David Chamberlain, an analyst with In-Stat, a market research firm. “The telcos have been very careful not to give stuff away.”
By contrast, he said, “a lot of people on the Internet are wondering — why did we let all this stuff go for free?”
So how did the internet reach the expectation that all content should be free? Is it because there are just a handful of phone company’s, making it easier to control what content must be paid for?
