Level3 is without peer, now what to do?

Re:Level3 is without peer, now what to do? by eldavido on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @03:04PM (#7774514)

This would be an unmitigated disaster. Everyone would call Comcast, Comcast would tell the story their way, and things would be even worse than they are now. They'd probably get on national nightly news talking about how their "partners" "unfairly" "cut them off from the Internet".

It would be pretty interesting to watch the spin machine in action, though. 100% pure PR spin.

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Re:Level3 is without peer, now what to do? by ryanhuff on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @04:08PM (#7774865)

That's why you throttle Comcast customers. Can't it go both ways?

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Re:Level3 is without peer, now what to do? by sirclueless on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @10:53PM (#7776464)

The point is that if Netflix throttles Comcast customers, the customers stream from Comcast On-Demand instead. They don't switch away from Comcast because they can't, which is what makes this an unbalanced situation.

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Re:Level3 is without peer, now what to do? by jarjoura on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @12:28PM (#7779108)

Also, don't forget that Comcast now owns NBC. :-)

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