Time for ISPs to move away from using Bell Canada's DSL network and build something else. If the ISP is running on Wireless or FTTx or had their own copper, they would not be subject to this charge.
This is one of the dangers of LLU but if LLU happened in India, there are already so many other options (wireless, ftth, independent dsl networks, cablewalas) that it would be stupid for whoever owns the copper to implement such charges unless they did it from day 1.
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this is just the beginning
Huge ISPs want per-GB payments from Netflix, YouTube
Poor Internet providers. They have to carry all that horrible, horrible traffic from
Netflix and YouTube, and they just can't afford it anymore. Unless they start charging end users 21 percent more for Internet access, or unless they're allowed to bill Internet companies at 3.7¢ per GB, the Internet could "become unusable at peak times" due to congestion.
Rightfully so. Netflix and Youtube etc are no longer peering partners because their traffic is no longer at 1:1 - more like 5:1, and thats why they should have to pay (though a flat-rate option would be fine as well).
THe ips,cable companies cannot believe that there is a thing known as free enterprise.they cannot imagine that cable
tv system is comming to an end.We wont even have netflix,hulu type of distribution and already airtel has started to throttle the internet.
There is a thing known as free enterprise - that's what is creating these issues. Prices have been so low for so long considering the expenditure, however fortunately for those companies, the Cable TV and DSL systems have a long way to go before they fade away in to obselescense.
Remember, Airtel throttles the internet for it's retail customers only. I buy bandwidth off of Bharti, but they have no right to throttle me and my customers, since I'm distributing that data on my own network. But if Netflix and Youtube wanted priority access on my network, I do, in theory, have the right to charge them for that privilege, otherwise if their traffic isn't high enough priority, then the user experience could be degraded.
Now keep in mind that even if I have a Youtube or Netflix cache in my network, the videos still have to be able to get from Netflix/Youtube's main servers to my network, somehow. And if Netflix and Youtube aren't going to pony up any cash for bandwidth, who is? Am I expected to pay? What benefit is my company going to get out of it? Is Netflix or Youtube going to share some revenue with me? Not likely.
