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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by michaelmrose on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:33PM (#14840653)
Google pays for their own network services. Whomever google pays for network services pays pays if applicable to connect to Verizon's network.

The sole and only thing they are being paid for on the ISP side of Verizon's operation is to quickly and reliably deliver the content people want to consume over the pipe people have paid to have installed.

YouTube by hosting content people want to consume is driving demand for Verizon's services.

Pretending that this is a cost is a bazaar inversion of reality.

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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by criddell on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:06PM (#14841591)
> Google pays for their own network services.

Do they? Who do they pay? I thought that maybe one of the reasons Google got into the ISP business was to be a peer with the other big networks and not pay any peerage fees.

Does Verizon pay for network services?

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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by jessaustin on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:38PM (#14842439) 

  s/bazaar/bizarre/
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