[171414] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Mon Apr 28 14:34:13 2014
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:34:03 -0400
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <535E9CBD.2030405@paradoxnetworks.net>
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On 04/28/2014 02:23 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
> On 4/28/2014 12:05 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>>
>> Now, I can either think of it as double dipping, or I can think of it
>> as getting a piece of the action....
>
> However, as a cable company, comcast must pay content providers for
> video. In addition, they may be losing more video subscribers due to
> netflix. In reality, Netflix is direct competition to Comcast's video
> branch.
>
>
That's exactly right. But it somehow sounds better to blame it on the
bandwidth consumed.
