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The excuse would be that it's not free and the revenue from lost customers is less than the cost of upgrading the peering points.
by adamsb6 2y ago
The excuse would be that it's not free and the revenue from lost customers is less than the cost of upgrading the peering points.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoThe money that funds everything on the Internet comes from the end users who pay to access. The ISPs and all middlemen take from that pool of cash. If I've been sold a service to an open network I need to be delivered that service. The minutia of backhaul access is irrelevant. Their business doesn't exist without people and businesses paying for access. What this arrangement does is limit revenue growth which is why the financial schemers want to double dip with their extortionate tolling on entities that already pay. They see what the cable operators get away with on their closed video distribution networks negotiating for access and want to replicate the same on the Internet.