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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts
David Schwartz wrote: Your customers pay you to carry their traffic across your network between them and the next network in the line. There is no reason anyone else should compensate you for doing this. What it all comes down to is that the majority of eyeballs are on "residential" connections that are relatively expensive to provide but for which are sold at a relatively low price (often 1/10th as much per megabit of capacity). Those eyeball ISPs cannot or will not charge their customers the full cost of "receiving" traffic so they want money from the more profitable content ISPs "sending" the traffic to offset their losses. This is also one of the reasons eyeball ISPs want to stamp out P2P: both ends of the connections are on unprofitable lines and there is _nobody_ paying for the traffic. Just follow the money. S
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