That's pretty dramatic. I wonder if they throttle, won't increase peering bandwidth and won't allow them to deploy an OCA within their networks like Verizon is/

That's pretty dramatic. I wonder if they throttle, won't increase peering bandwidth and won't allow them to deploy an OCA within their networks like Verizon is/did? Could be that the connection is simply tapped out and they're trying to play hardball with Netflix. It is hosted on exactly the same infrastructure and served over the same network links after all.