Verizon doesn't pay Level3 for the traffic, the person sending the traffic always pays, unless there is a peering agreement. That's how it's always worked. The

Verizon doesn't pay Level3 for the traffic, the person sending the traffic always pays, unless there is a peering agreement. That's how it's always worked. These fights and skirmishes over peering agreements happen often. That's the reality of how things have always been up until today, it's not a change in the status quo.