Former network engineer here who built these big networks in the 1990s. At MCI and UUNET we used to talk about all the services we would build to compete with G

Former network engineer here who built these big networks in the 1990s. At MCI and UUNET we used to talk about all the services we would build to compete with GeoCities and AOL. If only we didn't have to face our peers every Wednesday at informal meetings in the DC area and tell them that we would favor our own traffic over theirs at our interconnects. The traffic and interconnects were growing so fast we couldn't stop open peering and risk "killing the goose that laid the golden egg." Now things are different. Comcast is a content company propped up by a cable monopoly. Title II? Hell yeah. But no price controls. Whatever it takes to get us to have the residential bandwidth of, say, Estonia.