[133723] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Dec 16 11:52:54 2010
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:52:38 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Mikel Waxler <dooser@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin3HXyFgSVTZrkHUz3TH1CbcMqBHHNAF07GH5cz@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/16/2010 9:17 AM, Mikel Waxler wrote:
> Comcast can now charge its customers only for upkeep of its network and use
> the income they get as an "end point delivery network" to offset customer
> cost. Comcast's cost, which are upkeep and expansion of its physical
> network, now scale proportionally with its customer base.
The problem with your layout is that, as a netflix user, I pay more to
netflix so that you can have their service over comcast, and my provider
doesn't get income from the netflix streams as it is sub 100k users (so
I still have to pay for my provider's upgrades to handle the netflix
which percentage wise will be higher than comcast due to less ideal
bandwidth discounts and the locality which may even drive up the overall
percentage of netflix streams per customer base).
Jack
