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Re:T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iClou... by btown on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:05PM (#29884292)
Wouldn't most carriers have peering relationships with Apple for Apple TV content? Presumably iCloud Private Relay traffic could be sent over that connection as well, meaning that of all the VPN-esque solutions, Apple's is the most efficient from a traffic exchange perspective.

(Of course, it was likely never about the traffic exchange itself, but rather the ability to route, shape, and track traffic dynamically on a host-by-host basis, as others have speculated.)

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Re:T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iClou... by aeonflux on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:07PM (#29885078)
I am guessing that AppleTV traffic is very low compared to Netflix or YouTube. Anyway I guess this setup must be super complicated. Apple is probably partnering with tons of entities to provide this all over the world. It must be a huge challenge at Apple scale. I wonder if they have any long term goals, which are not obvious.
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