Peering with Telekom
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Some reading recommendations about the searches at Telekom, France Telecom, and Telefónica.
The long-celebrated unity is clearly over; the market is getting tough. Large Tier 2 providers such as Deutsche Telekom have been gradually disconnecting their backbones (depeering) from supposedly smaller competitors for some time. Now there’s trouble among Tier 1 carriers too—the few global players who can reach the entire internet without outside help.
2010: Obermann wants to charge Google
We can’t offer everything for free; those who place heavy demands on the networks have to pay.
2011, Focus Online: YouTube’s long load times frustrate Telekom customers
The company spokesperson hinted that Telekom would not want to fix such bottlenecks for free in the future. “We’ll have to discuss whether high-traffic providers such as YouTube should pay us to manage their large data streams.”
2013: Orange says Google pays it for YouTube traffic
2013: The same dispute between Cogent and Verizon over Netflix, Gigaom
Netflix’s growing popularity has made it a target of ISP vitriol and anger, especially from those offering competing services. Verizon, for instance, owns 50 percent of Redbox, an internet video service that competes with Netflix. Time Warner Cable and Comcast have also allowed online video quality to degrade on their networks—the idea being that when Netflix becomes a bad experience, people may look for alternatives, perhaps the ISP’s own pay-TV offering.
Now, the searches:
I’m not surprised in the least.
Net neutrality must also be established on the carrier side, and abuse of a dominant market position must be prevented.
Internet players interconnect through a combination of wholesale services to reach every possible internet destination. Connectivity lets market players such as content providers connect to the internet and offer their products or services to retail customers. This service is crucial to the internet and to end users’ ability to reach online content with the required quality of service, regardless of where the provider is located.