S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

Sun Oct 10 22:31:05 UTC 2021


> On 11 Oct 2021, at 7:18 am, Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:
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> On 10/10/21 22:10, Geoff Huston wrote:
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>> I have to agree with Doug Barton's earlier observation is that the base problem is that the ISPs are using a flawed business model and they don't want to charge their customers what it really costs to provide them with high speed access, nor do they want to fund additional back-end capacity in their network without some form of offset revenue stream.
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> I think ISP's do want to charge their customers what it actually costs to provide them with a service, but they can't because many ISP's business models are based purely on undercutting their nearest competitor.
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> I might be naive and hopeful to think that operators will have a blood handshake to set prices where customers can't wag the tail.
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In many environments, the words we use to describe this form of price setting are generally prefixed by the adjective “illegal” :-)

Geoff