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March 22, 2006
Who Owns the Internet?
A fascinating article and great maps on who owns the Internet at Ben Worthen's blog. The following graphic from his site shows about almost all the routers on the North American backbone. (He says there are 134,855 of them.)
source: http://blogs.cio.com/node/209.
"The colors represent who each router is registered to. Red is Verizon; blue AT&T; yellow Qwest; green is major backbone players like Level 3 and Sprint Nextel; black is the entire cable industry put together; and gray is everyone else, from small telecommunications companies to large international players who only have a small presence in the U.S."
He has a much bigger map with labels here.
His conclusions are that, while AT&T and Verizon are the two biggest owners of the core, they do not own enough to be worried about a monopoly. Read the whole article. Very interesting!
Posted by DavidK at March 22, 2006 06:09 AM | Permalink