[132724] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Tue Nov 30 11:50:28 2010
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:47:09 -0800
In-Reply-To: <4CF5023D.6040808@spectraaccess.com>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Bret Clark" <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Seriously this has nothing to do with L3 but more with Netflix...it's
> clear that the Netflix business model is eating into Comcast VoD
> business and so they are strong arming other providers to affect
> Netflix's business model. But as others have stated what would happen
> if
> Comcast starts coming after every service provider's hosting services
> that Comcast doesn't like?
>=20
> Bret
>=20
I think it has more to do with this:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_16526623?source
=3Drss
The cable companies are losing subs at an increasing rate. People are
using them for internet and not buying the television programming. If
Comcast can't collect from their "cord-cutting" customers, then they
will collect from the content providers whose products their customers
are using.
