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Free trade is impeded if the ISPs are putting tariffs (paid prioritization) on Canadian services.
by SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago
Free trade is impeded if the ISPs are putting tariffs (paid prioritization) on Canadian services.
- smsm42 9y agoHow is it impeded? It's like saying "free trade is impeded by Canadian trucks forced to pay for gas in US". No, it's not impeded - expecting to pay for services is not "impediment", nobody owes anybody to serve them for free, even to Canadians.
- freeone3000 9y agoPaying for gas is a required, due to physical constraints. Prioritization of local services over international services is a de facto tariff, and could easily fall under free trade. WTO has handled internet cases before.
- Can_Not 9y agoIt is impeded if they have to pay for the US gas stations for the same gas they already paid for in Canada.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoBecause they already paid for access, to their own ISPs. Their ISPs paid for access to backbone ISPs, which paid (through peering or peering + money) for access to other backbones. End-user ISPs pay the backbones for access, or (in the case of the large ones) may run their own backbone services. Either way the end-user ISP has been paid by their user for access to the backbone ISPs. It's as though the Canadian trucks paid for their gas in Canada, and then get charged an import duty for it upon entering the US.