"When you pay Verizon you pay for access to their network. Not access to Netflix's network." I don't see it that way, not do I think, the vast majority of US c

"When you pay Verizon you pay for access to their network. Not access to Netflix's network." I don't see it that way, not do I think, the vast majority of US consumers see it that way either. If you go to the landing page for verizon's high speed internet service, you'll see nothing that says "You are paying for verizon network service, not internet access. The do not call the server "high speed verizon network service", they call it internet service because they know customers do not want access to verizon's network, but the internet. Also, verizon knows many of their customers want to watch netflix, and they certainly would rather watch a netflix video with 15 seconds of buffering for every minute of actual video (which, funny enough, is probably still less wasted time than in ad supported channels as such is supplied by verizon's tv service). Thus, but fulfilling their promise to connect their customers to the internet via peering relationships to the parts of the internet that their customers demand, they are creating happy customers, how is that not mutually beneficial? Lastly, you would have to be devoid of all pessimism to not believe this isn't about money, but control. If you look at the money verizon is charging for these peering arrangements, is quite trivial to both netflix and verizon. But it just so happens that netflix is competing with a core product of verizon. Once the peering arrangements go in, verizon has a platform to begin to influence netflix and their ilk.