On Jul 22, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Elijah Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No matter how many people "want" it otherwise, the ISPs built those >> networks, invested billions of dollars in them, and nobody else other than >> their shareholders should have a say how traffic is managed on them. > > The government is us. Vote. And raise hell. > > Don't forget the enormous subsidies that have been paid out to telcos and > cable > companies, one way or another, over the years. It's not just the monopoly -- > it's that > we paid for a ton of stuff (lines, trenching, gear, whatever) , and there is > not an obvious ROI. Unless you put those caveats on the subsidies, etc., you don't get to change the rules later. Just as I don't to make a donation to the Red Cross in 2003 and then say in 2014 "Hey, remember that $100 I gave you? It means I get to change how you operate today." That's just not how it works. > Various companies have been milking the tit to get folks hooked on "on > demand" video > and fast internet -- yes, Virginia, there is a santa claus -- for years, and > not properly > accounting for growth (trend lines, anyone?) and the eventual need for rapid > expansion. Instead, > the money was probably paid out in profits / dividends. The counterpoint to that is that various companies have been milking the ISPs, believing they could flow as much video traffic through those peering-points as they wanted, oblivious to whether or not the other side was prepared to invest in the infrastructure necessary to keep the video business functional. Because let's be clear: Netflix needs the last-mile folks a metric ton more than the last-mile folks need Netflix. And it's just ass-u-me'd that those carriers would continue to bear the burden of upgrading infrastructure to keep their bits flowing. D
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