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

[Nick Stallman]

Depends what Netflix wants more, lots of happy subscribers spreading 
word of mouth or maximising profits.

I think initially they want to get everyone using Netflix and telling 
everyone else about it and they'd be happy to make a loss to get market 
share.

On 20/04/15 13:44, Joseph Goldman wrote:
> 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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