> This is mostly a fight between Google/Netflix google/netflix really doesn't care how the residential customers' IP traffic, in aggregate, gets to the nearest

> This is mostly a fight between Google/Netflix google/netflix really doesn't care how the residential customers' IP traffic, in aggregate, gets to the nearest major city's IX point. They're equally happy to peer with things like centurylink's GPON network. Gigantic content sources will peer and offer caching appliances (netflix) to any ISP with a sufficient volume of downstream eyeball traffic. You're trying to write it as if google/netflix and similar have some nefarious plan to interfere in various cities' last mile fiber networks, which is not the case at all.