 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
1 edit | reply to Mr Matt
Re: It seems like this situation happened a long time ago. said by Mr Matt:Although it might not be a popular proposal it might be time to allow ISP's to charge commercial content providers such as Netflix fees for carrying their traffic. A) Nextflix et all already pay for their bandwidth. Now you expect them to pay TWICE? You do realize the only reason why people want to use the ISPs pipes is that there is content to be consumed. No content then the "tubes" can be as big as they want and no one will use them. ISP should be GRATEFUL companies like Netflix made the internet so popular that people want to pay $50 or more a month for internet service
B) do you think companies like Netflix are going to eat this cost? No they will pass this onto the consumer. So if it's your assumption that by charging these companies a fee and thus this will mean you won't have to end up paying like you would with a cap and overages you are greatly mistaken.
C) I find it ironic ISPs like at&t are all for wanting to charge companies a fee for using their pipe, but right now they pay ESPN money to carry bandwidth hogging espn360.com. Does that make sense? So not only is espn360.com using up a lot of bandwidth per every at&t user that accesses it, at&t is paying for that "privilege". That would be kind of like the toll booth operator paying me to use the tollway. Why should I trust the opinions of a company that says it wants to do one thing and then does the exact opposite? |
