Comcast gets paid by Netflix and might still want money from Cogent

Posted by BernardSwiss on Feb 26, 2014 10:18 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Jon Brodkin
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Some advocates of network neutrality, the concept that Internet service providers should treat all traffic equally, argued that a lack of competition and regulation in US broadband will make it easy for ISPs to demand additional payments while threatening to degrade traffic.

When ISPs and video providers fight over money, Internet users suffer. Tim Wu, a professor who coined the phrase "network neutrality," warned in The New Yorker that Netflix paying Comcast "sets a bad precedent—it will embolden Comcast to extract more tolls from any popular Web company that wants to reach its broadband customers and fears degradation of service."

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