Article: After Comcast, Netflix signs traffic deal with Verizon
Re: Article: After Comcast, Netflix signs traffic deal with Verizon
So Comcast and Verizon customers are paying for an internet connection and now the ones using Netflix are paying Netflix to pay Comcast/Verizon for the same internet connection? Including government subsidies for connection improvements they are getting paid 3 times for the same service, wow.
Re: Article: After Comcast, Netflix signs traffic deal with Verizon
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duke0102
So Comcast and Verizon customers are paying for an internet connection and now the ones using Netflix are paying Netflix to pay Comcast/Verizon for the same internet connection? Including government subsidies for connection improvements they are getting paid 3 times for the same service, wow.
Shit like this is exactly why people can't broadly campaign that a free market economy will solve everything. If there was actually a competitive market in which you could choose ISPs, crap like preferential treatment of traffic wouldn't fly as consumers could just switch carriers. Unfortunately there isn't, and the price of startup for entering into the ISP market is too high, so we can't treat Internet like a competitive market. It needs to a be a utility.
Re: Article: After Comcast, Netflix signs traffic deal with Verizon
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Originally Posted by
duke0102
So Comcast and Verizon customers are paying for an internet connection and now the ones using Netflix are paying Netflix to pay Comcast/Verizon for the same internet connection? Including government subsidies for connection improvements they are getting paid 3 times for the same service, wow.
Shit like this is exactly why people can't broadly campaign that a free market economy will solve everything. If there was actually a competitive market in which you could choose ISPs, crap like preferential treatment of traffic wouldn't fly as consumers could just switch carriers. Unfortunately there isn't, and the price of startup for entering into the ISP market is too high, so we can't treat Internet like a competitive market. It needs to a be a utility.
That's true all the way up until you're a congressman being handed a sack of cash by ISPs, then suddenly you start seeing that it's a free market with no issues at all. I don't know about our markets, but our system of government is purely capitalist.
