Two 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 buil

Two 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...