Level 3 Communications Issues Statement ConcerningComcast'sActions
George Bonser
gbonser at seven.com
Tue Nov 30 03:32:57 UTC 2010
> Heck, if I were Level3, I might even drop the level of traffic in my
> own network bound for Comcast and have a note on the site that Comcast
> users can expect poor performance. Something like "Comcast is too poor
> to upgrade their network and has attempted to extort payment from us
> under threat of disconnection from their internet users. Though we
> have refused to pay the "eyeball ransom", we have decided to help
> Comcast out anyway by bandwidth limiting traffic to their poor wittle
> network. As a result, Comcast users might experience reduced
> performance."
>
Note that was tongue in cheek. I actually support the notion of making it more expensive to deploy more bandwidth intensive applications as it *does* place an unfair burden on the delivery network. The problem I have in this case is the conflict of interest when the delivery network is also a content provider and discriminates against content competitors.
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