Ed Whitacre, who is about to be the CEO of AT&T once SBC changes its name, thinks the likes of Google and Yahoo need to be paying him.

If you’ve ever wondered >why Google would want a network it wholly owns and controls, look no farther than the Business Week interview with SBC Communications head man Whitacre. Asked about concerns he might have with the likes of the search engines companies, and VoIP market leader Vonage, he sees a big tollbooth constructed at the on-ramp to the information superhighway :

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