Free lunch?

John Thorne, a Verizon senior vice president and deputy general counsel, got it backwards. According to the Washington Post, he said:

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.

Now, in my view of the world... things are a little different... he should have said:

The internet builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the services that we indend to exploit with nothing but our old depreciated infrastructure.

We're enjoying a $200 Billion lunch that should, by any rational account, be the lunch of our customers.

Such is the world of doublespeak and boldface lying that inhabits the beltway. It's obscene.

--Mike--