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Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:54:19 -0800
As a Comcast customer, I find it very interesting that they think they have the right to reject bits from other providers I may request them from. The first time I encounter Comcast actually blocking bits I want as a result of this policy, it will result in a technical support call. If the bits don't start flowing within a reasonable time after that call, you can bet that I will be pursuing regulatory and judicial relief. Ordinarily, I would simply vote with my feet and switch to another broadband provider, but, if you want more than 1.5Mbps/384kbps in my neighborhood, Comcast is currently the only game in town. I encourage other Comcast customers to make it clear to Comcast that this attempt to extort money from other providers at the potential cost of degraded service to Comcast's own customers is deplorable and certainly violates the spirit if not the letter of the service agreements for their high speed internet service products. Owen On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Guerra, Ruben wrote:
It seems that Comcast(AS7922) peers directly with Netflix(AS2906)....? -----Original Message----- From: Phil Bedard [mailto:bedard.phil () gmail com] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 5:24 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Is L3 hosting content for Netflix? Netflix has become a large source of traffic going to end users. L3 likely could have held out on this one if the content they were hosting is valuable enough to Comcast's customers, but maybe what Comcast was asking for wasn't much in the grand scheme of things. Obviously someone has to pay for the access infrastructure and Comcast would much rather get the content provider to pay for it versus passing it along to their customers. I think they probably just took a stab and L3 complied. Phil On 11/29/10 5:28 PM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net> wrote:<http://www.marketwatch.com/story/level-3-communications-issues-statement- concerning-comcasts-actions-2010-11-29?reflink=MW_news_stmp> I understand that politics is off-topic, but this policy affects operational aspects of the 'Net. Just to be clear, L3 is saying content providers should not have to pay to deliver content to broadband providers who have their own product which has content as well. I am certain all the content providers on this list are happy to hear L3's change of heart and will be applying for settlement free peering tomorrow. (L3 wouldn't want other providers to claim the Vyvx or CDN or other content services provided by L3 are competing and L3 is putting up a "toll booth" on the Internet, would they?) -- TTFN, patrick
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- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions, (continued)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Jeff Wheeler (Nov 30)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Christopher Morrow (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 29)
- Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 29)
- Re: Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] John Curran (Nov 30)
- Re: Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] Owen DeLong (Nov 30)
- Re: Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] Leo Bicknell (Nov 30)
- Re: Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] Matthew Petach (Nov 30)
- Re: Ratios & peering [was: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions] Leo Bicknell (Nov 30)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Owen DeLong (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Jeff Kell (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions Steven Fischer (Nov 29)
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