2 ms·
Don’t miss the past paragraph in the article, “In the United States, Netflix has been paying a fee to broadband provider Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) for over seven y
by dahart 5y ago
Don’t miss the past paragraph in the article, “In the United States, Netflix has been paying a fee to broadband provider Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) for over seven years for faster streaming speeds. https://reut.rs/2Y8wOzb” https://reut.rs/2Y8wOzb”
- ralfd 5y agoTwo points: 1. In 2014 Netflix made similar deals with AT&T and Verizon. 2. It is not extortion by the ISP, "pay up or else". But Netflix was simply building up its own CDN-capabilities. They ditched Akamai and Limelight and for that they needed their own server endpoints into the networks. https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2014/02/heres-comcast-netflix-deal-structured-numbers.html https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2014/02/heres-comcast-net...