<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>On 27 Aug 2014, at 11:16 am, Mark Newton <<a href="mailto:newton@atdot.dotat.org">newton@atdot.dotat.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><br><div><div>On Aug 27, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Ben Grubb <<a href="mailto:bgrubb@fairfaxmedia.com.au">bgrubb@fairfaxmedia.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">"</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Frankly, if Netflix wanted to really put the cat amongst the pigeons, it'd</span></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">come in with a great service and pay Telstra for "transit" (only actually</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">using them as a last-resort provider for routes it can't get elsewhere, to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">minimise traffic costs) -- for a time."</span><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div>They could so that.... but why would they when they could just open in a market where it's cheaper before here?</div><div>As CloudFlare points out, it's 20X Europe for bandwidth here and Telstra is apparently to blame for a lot of this.</div>
</div></blockquote><br></div><div>We’ve covered this subject on this mailing list before. Recently. Goldfish memory.</div></div></blockquote><br><div>And Telstra might try a non neutral, QoS play which the retail market would reward with a large shift to Telstra's competitors because incumbency ain't what it was. </div><div><br></div><div>jsl</div></body></html>