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^^^ the law and the $10s of millions you'd need to effectively build and provision it and that is if you got lucky and got customers quickly. In other news, Mozilla has a pretty brilliant idea that could actually have legs and might achieve the very difficult mix of keeping the net fundamentally neutral while not over-regulating things so we get a 2014 version of Ma Bell: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2014/05/05/protecting-net-neutrality-and-the-open-internet/
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More like netflix was paying l3 and especially cogent for bandwidth and they started saturating the interconnects with major residential ISPs. L3 and/or Cogent asked Comcast to add some more ports, Comcast said "uhm, this is really moving away from being peering fast and we aren't wiring up any more, show me the money, k, thx, bye." Things finally got bad enough for netflix that they cut out the middleman and bought the ports from comcast (actually first verizon then comcast) themselves for an undisclosed but certainly massive sum. Really the only part I've got a problem with here is the undisclosed bit -- that is how you get discriminatory practices. If we put that out in the open we'd be able to understand what the price of a byte at the interconnects is and the market could work itself out. As for Tom's statement today I think the big trick is measurement -- everyone gloms on to megabits but it probabably matters more how quickly and smoothly those bits get delivered than absolute numbers beyond a certain point.
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Ocrassus posted:Just nationalise the ISPs and be done with it. Seriously, it's a mess. Yeah because then they will do a great job getting stuff done. Like the post office.
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