On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:33 AM, <olaf.bonn...@telekom.de> wrote: > I wonder if it would make a difference if big eyeballs ISPs ("among the > 3 largest in a country") would start talking to content providers, telling > them "hey, you know, your content is quite popular with our users, but > since it's v4-only, we need to seriously throttle it to avoid overloading > our CGN. v6 goes unlimited, btw."... > > just dreaming... > > [Obo]: Nice idea :). However content is king and your customer hotline > will turn red because of people blaming you as ISP. >
That's not true. ISPs shake down content companies all the time - look at Comcast vs. Netflix, for example. I'm sure that as a large DT does its share of that kind of thing too :-)