[kictanet] Should streaming services pay ISPs for increased traffic?

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

Interesting angle Washington. It is indeed a chicken and egg situation.

As a network engineer, you know the implication of the international
transit data on the cost of running an ISP. Profitability of an ISP is
based on the assumption that on average, the users will not consume more
than fair quota, and if they do, other users using limited services but
paying the same amount per package will compensate and balance out the
cost, leaving some margin for profitability. If streaming services squeeze
out this advantage from ISPs, which is very easy because you just leave the
service running, and it consumes all bandwidth, what recourse does ISPs
have? Increase the cost to consumers? Share the burden with commercial
content providers? Degrade service offered by content providers? Where
should the balance be?

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, 12:51 Odhiambo Washington via KICTANet, <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 12:38 PM Mwendwa Kivuva via KICTANet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> In the United States, Netflix has been paying a fee to broadband provider
>> Comcast Corp for faster streaming speeds.
>>
>> South Korea's ISP SK Broadband has sued Netflix to pay for costs from
>> increased network traffic and maintenance work because of a surge of
>> viewers to the U.S. firm's content.
>> Seoul court said Netflix should "reasonably" give something in return to
>> the internet service provider for network usage, and multiple South Korean
>> lawmakers have spoken out against content providers who do not pay for
>> network usage despite generating explosive traffic.
>>
>> other content providers such as Amazon, Apple and Facebook are paying SK
>> Broadband for usage of the network.
>>
>> Should content providers compensate network providers for increased
>> traffic to their network? Is this a net neutrality issue where all content
>> should be treated equally?se or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam,
>> do not market your wares or qualifications.
>>
>
> How is my usage of my services I am paying my ISP for being interpreted as
> "usage by my content provider"?
> Is this the chicken-and-egg situation I have been hearing about?
> I am already paying my ISP. If I didn't, they'd not even see the traffic
> to Netflix, YT, etc.
>
> Content providers compensating network providers for increased traffic to
> their network seems like stealing for me. The content providers are not
> using the ISP network. It's the client who pays for the link who does. Do
> ISPs want to give FREE connections to me so that I can use Netflix, YT,
> HBOMax and have these content providers pay them for my own traffic?
>
>
>
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