Voice telecom operators have this all figured out. Companies exist to function as interconnection hubs only and are very successful at it. Billing systems (most

Voice telecom operators have this all figured out. Companies exist to function as interconnection hubs only and are very successful at it. Billing systems (mostly built on RADIUS) keep track behind the scenes of every second of voice call routed through these companies. All it took was a regulating agency to force the telecom operators to open up and allow 3rd parties to interconnect to provide their own voice service and/or act as hubs. And all of that at regulated prices per minute. So let's say you subscribe to Voiceflix for 5$/month but want to "call" Game of Towers which has a different techprefix so you're routed outside your network at a (hopefully reasonable) cost. Initially it will be expensive (remember the prices in early '00 per minute of voice call?) but eventually it will come down to earth. So now you have two types of entities: - content storage: tries to get as much exclusive content but for overlapping content tries to "bid" the lowest price so it gets the traffic. - hubs that want to take your money and stream from content storage services and don't care which one has the content as long as it is within profit margin the user can stream it.