On Jul 22, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Will Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: > VZ has a right to run their network any way it sees fit. If they can make > more profit from Netflix with a pay-to-play agreement, that's good for the > owners of VZ, and is incumbent on management trying to maximize profit for > the owners (which is every businesses' job #1.) However, somewhere, it > crosses the line of "reasonable" profit and is construed to hurt consumers, > and the Fed steps in to limit profiteering via regulation. Seeing as how the > FCC already regulates VZ, VZ is making the calculated risk that Netflix will > blink before the FCC will act... "It's just business."
And I think the outcome of that is that regulatory take-over of the internet side of the house would be - since they already lose money on FIOS as it is - they say "Screw it" and kill the service. "This is not profitable for us, we're not going to do it... would you like DSL instead?" D
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