said by McBane:Verizon is demanding that Netflix and all the above need to pay for transit to Verizon customers.
AFAIK, Verizon never said this, yet it keeps coming up in this thread. They are asking Cogent to pay for asymmetrical data usage, just as L3 did in the press release I linked to.
Cogent is charging Netflix for transit onto "the Internet". It's Cogent's responsibility to transport the data to other networks. I still can't find a case where a tier 1 or tier 2 provider with settlement-free peering was paying
the sending network for excess incoming data.
Edit: Hrm.. I guess I could understand the argument if Cogent is considered a transit ISP between Verizon and Netflix - in that case, it would make sense that both Verizon and Netflix pay Cogent. However, I don't think this is the case as Cogent tries to act like a Tier 1 provider.