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It's not Comcast's responsibility to support someone else's business model. It's also not Netflix's responsibility to support Comcast's business model if they
by web007 9y ago
It's not Comcast's responsibility to support someone else's business model.
It's also not Netflix's responsibility to support Comcast's business model if they can't afford to provide bandwidth that customers desire and are allowed.
It's Comcast's responsibility to support their advertised usage sufficiently. If they say that they support 100mbps then I should be able to get 100mbps from wherever I like. They're going to have to pay for that uplink somewhere, whether it's Netflix or Google or Zayo or Level3 or whoever.
- jerkstate 9y agoI agree, this is the crux of the argument. Broadband ISPs have been guilty of this for some time. Mobile players are generally getting a little more leeway by capping total transfer per month and not talking about rates as much. And T-mobile's "Binge On" product has been mostly hailed as pro-consumer, even though it does shape video down to SD bitrates and is a direct violation of the "paid prioritization" tenet of net neutrality as described in FCC's directive.
- FireBeyond 9y ago> If they say that they support 100mbps then I should be able to get 100mbps from wherever I like. Precisely. Not "from wherever we've got a 'preferred' agreement or kickback only".