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>> Now, Netflix might be large enough now to pay it so you say we have 'competition.' What about the next startup? The company that isn't large yet? That is wh
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>> Now, Netflix might be large enough now to pay it so you say we have 'competition.' What about the next startup? The company that isn't large yet? That is where competition dies and that is what the cable companies plans are protecting.
That is why I mentioned AWS bandwidth pricing. Because bandwidth is usually much more expensive for a low usage startup than a big established. How is that not already a constraint to growth?
Also, I am absolutely not in favour of throtteling connections based on payment. We need a fair system that can be applied with the same terms to everyone. If bandwidth is the big technical constraint why not regulate that instead of protecting shadowy peering agreements that only benefit large players.
- nitrogen 12y agoHow is that not already a constraint to growth? It makes growth easy; the more you grow, the cheaper your bandwidth. Hosting bandwidth is already significantly cheaper than consumer bandwidth, and nobody is forcing you to use AWS. Bandwidth is not the "big technical constraint" as Level3 and Netflix have shown in various blog posts.