said by noname10:Ok, I wanted to adress this statement too because it is so asinine. Actually I am having trouble responding to it. You want both the ISP and content provider to to pay MORE MONEYto add a unnecessary middleman network and provide a less reliable and lower quality of service with higher latency at the same time? Are you a child or a union worker?
It actually wouldn't surprise me if your a union telco worker. Please tell me you are for my own amusement LOL.
As stated before, the intermediate providers are not the main cost of Internet infrastructure. In fact, most of them provide very little of the network as most broadband networks have backbones these days. Most of the middle transit providers carry the traffic for 1 router hop and are "selling" the broadband networks (very similar to Cogent issues in the past). The middle providers gain the profits without having any of the real costs. This is why the Tier1 peering system is in such a mess these days.
