Verizon's accidental mea culpa

Re:Verizon's accidental mea culpa by mikecb on Thursday July 17, 2014 @02:58PM (#8049461)

I have a website I host from home. Am I entitled to free FIOS because someone else on FIOS wants to access it? That's the question. It gets confused in the peering issue. And settlement free peering is important, even essential to how the internet works. And the FCC should absolutely preserve it.

But the real question here is, is this a peering relationship anymore. And Verizon has a legitimate argument that it is not based on the sustained differences in traffic flows. I don't know what the answer is to this problem, but I'm not convinced by either Level3/Netflix or Verizon.

Personally, if I ran Verizon, I'd be meshing with Google/Netflix/Amazon's networks as much as possible. But I'm not, oh well.

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Re:Verizon's accidental mea culpa by ethanhunt_ on Thursday July 17, 2014 @03:39PM (#8049722)

> And Verizon has a legitimate argument that it is not based on the sustained differences in traffic flows

Verizon and comcast have been selling asymmetrical residential links since always. Verizon is advertising 500/100 on their homepage right now. They know damn well that people are pulling way more data than they're pushing, and the interconnect links from level3-to-ISP have always been hugely asymmetrical.

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Re:Verizon's accidental mea culpa by mcphage on Thursday July 17, 2014 @03:19PM (#8049590)

> Am I entitled to free FIOS because someone else on FIOS wants to access it?

That would be up to the arrangement you have with your internet provider.

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