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Mutually agreeable would be something like this: Comcast-we provide access to 30 million residential customers for you to deliver content to. Level 3: We prov
by specialp 13y ago
Mutually agreeable would be something like this: Comcast-we provide access to 30 million residential customers for you to deliver content to. Level 3: We provide connectivity to Europe over our Apollo cable, connectivity to ..... on and on
Forget about Netflix here for a moment this is a network agreement. If you are Cogent Comcast can say: You are providing bulk bandwidth cheaply and delivering a huge amount of traffic to our network. You are not providing our customers or us with significantly greater connectivity, and far less of our traffic is going over your pipes. Pay us or we are not going to take more of your traffic.
- nknighthb 13y agoAs an end user, I say to Comcast: I'm paying you for access to a bunch of stuff on Cogent's network. Make sure you have adequate peering with them.
- allochthon 13y agoBut you have little leverage over Comcast, even collectively, if they're the only cable provider in your neighborhood.
- nknighthb 13y agoWhich is why government intervention is now an imperative.