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Comcast and Cogent disagreed on who should burden the costs. Because of this Netflix went around Cogent and are doing it themselves, and saving a lot of money b
by Touche 13y ago
Comcast and Cogent disagreed on who should burden the costs. Because of this Netflix went around Cogent and are doing it themselves, and saving a lot of money by doing so.
Now they are using the biased tech media to create a campaign whereby they will lower their costs even further and shift them onto others (including you and me).
- elq 13y agoYou keep saying that Netflix is saving money. Please provide a reference for this.
- mikeash 13y agoNetflix went around Cogent because Cogent couldn't get Comcast to bump up their peering capacity. Comcast wouldn't bump up their peering capacity because they're a monopoly in many places and have no incentive to improve. In a reasonable free market, none of this discussion would matter. The agreements would all shake themselves out in the marketplace. But give a company a monopoly and suddenly they're not subject to the same forces. Between Netflix, Cogent, and Comcast, only one of them is a monopoly.