Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

Thu Dec 16 16:52:38 UTC 2010

On 12/16/2010 9:17 AM, Mikel Waxler wrote:
> Comcast can now charge its customers only for upkeep of its network and use
> the income they get as an "end point delivery network" to offset customer
> cost. Comcast's cost, which are upkeep and expansion of its physical
> network, now scale proportionally with its customer base.

The problem with your layout is that, as a netflix user, I pay more to 
netflix so that you can have their service over comcast, and my provider 
doesn't get income from the netflix streams as it is sub 100k users (so 
I still have to pay for my provider's upgrades to handle the netflix 
which percentage wise will be higher than comcast due to less ideal 
bandwidth discounts and the locality which may even drive up the overall 
percentage of netflix streams per customer base).

Jack