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Doesn't Netflix already pay on a usage basis for their bandwidth? If you run a small website that gets 100 users a month, you pay very little for bandwidth. If
by imgabe 5y ago
Doesn't Netflix already pay on a usage basis for their bandwidth? If you run a small website that gets 100 users a month, you pay very little for bandwidth. If you run a video streaming site with millions of users you pay a lot.
And the users also pay for the bandwidth to download. Exactly how many more times do the ISPs need to get paid?
- seanp2k2 5y agoTaxpayers also paid ISPs to both deploy rural broadband and to upgrade existing infrastructure, so they’re getting paid 3x if you count that. Look up “The Book of Broken Promises”.
- makomk 5y agoNot necessarily. Small websites have to pay for their bandwidth, but bigger companies like Netflix have been pushing ISPs into various schemes that give them that bandwidth for free, either through peering arrangements where ISPs take traffic to and from Netflix systems for free or through installing caching boxes in ISP facilities with the power, data and space paid for by the ISP.
- imgabe 5y agoHow? What leverage does Netflix have that would convince their ISP to give them free bandwidth? It seems like if Netflix were unable to upload the video to their customers, that would be pretty detrimental to their business.