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Millenium
join:2013-10-30

Millenium

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Consumerist

According to Consumerist, Verizon is in fact letting ports saturate:

»consumerist.com/2014/02/ ··· service/
quote:
Cogent Communications, one of Netflix’s largest bandwidth vendors, said last summer that Verizon had previously opened up new ports to ease or prevent congestion when traffic hit around 50% capacity, but that the telecom giant had recently begun letting some ports reach 100% capacity without acting.
I don't know their sources, but they are speaking as if it were fact.
Kalmus
join:2012-11-21
Boston, MA

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Kalmus

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Consumerist is just quoting Cogent and doesn't suggest there's any other basis for the claim. This whole issue is just a question of who pays to augment capacity, and the dispute has been going on for months. I bet VZ has a good claim that Cogent is obligated to pay under the applicable agreements; otherwise, Cogent would have sued.