Let’s say Charter decides to blacklist all Shopify ip addresses from routing into their network, then tells online merchants if they want to sell to customers w

Let’s say Charter decides to blacklist all Shopify ip addresses from routing into their network, then tells online merchants if they want to sell to customers who chose Charter, they have to buy “enhanced” ecommerce hosting from Charter. And then AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and Sprint all do the same. And of course, Charter only takes product feeds in JSON, AT&T only tab-delimited, Comcast only XML, Verizon only CSV. It’ll be great for ChannelAdvisor and curtains for anyone who can’t afford their costly services. You’ll still need that Shopify account to reach customers on smaller ISPs.