Netflix To Cogent To World
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Wed Jul 30 23:35:32 UTC 2014
On Jul 30, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 06:21:46 PM Owen DeLong wrote:
>
>> Yes and no…
>>
>> The barrier to Netflix becoming a consumer ISP is very
>> high… Very very high. It costs a lot of money to deploy
>> all that last mile infrastructure, assuming you can get
>> permits, acquire rights-of-way, etc. to even do it.
>
> Note I said "...certain major...". For sure, not all
> content owners have the might or time to become ISP's
> (whether for themselves or for their customers). But
> definitely, "certain major" ones do... and we are already
> seeing bits of that, here and there in the world...
>
> I can't predict the future, but if "certain major" content
> owners/networks find the barriers to entry surmountable,
> consolidation could close the loop (certainly, if money,
> skill and effort wasn't my problem, this would be one of my
> strategies).
In that case, I would argue that the attempts to freeze Netflix
out in a SlowLane extortion scheme are a move by the existing
content/ISP conglomerates to do just exactly that, no?
If not, then I am completely failing to understand you point.
Owen
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