[AusNOG] Optus wants Netflix to pay up to ensure quality video streaming

[Joseph Goldman]

God this is a ridiculous argument - one I hoped wouldn't spill to AU market.

Surely - Netflix can simply say to subscribers "we have plenty of 
bandwidth to serve you, there must be a problem with your ISP", then the 
ISP's call centers are overrun with problems. In US, many of the areas 
are monopolised to a single provider for decent speeds, meaning the user 
does have to put up with it or sacrifice their high speed connection - 
but in AU just about every connection to the home has multiple retail 
providers to choose from without sacrificing speed (on last mile 
technology at least) and this will become more so when NBNCo take over 
with multi-tech, meaning users can walk with their wallets to a service 
that actually delivers Netflix and other services, correct? I'd be happy 
to take a big influx of customers and guarantee no slow-downs to Netflix 
if Optus doesn't want them, to be honest.

On 20/04/15 13:35, Matthew Muscat wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Looks like Netflix are going to (further) regret their unmetered deals 
> with Optus + iiNet.
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/optus-wants-netflix-to-pay-up-to-ensure-quality-video-streaming-20150420-1mooqg.html
>
> Regards,
> Matthew
>
>
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