Netflix To Cogent To World

[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

On Jul 30, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 06:21:46 PM Owen DeLong wrote:
> 
>> Yes and noâ?¦
>> 
>> The barrier to Netflix becoming a consumer ISP is very
>> highâ?¦ Very very high. It costs a lot of money to deploy
>> all that last mile infrastructure, assuming you can get
>> permits, acquire rights-of-way, etc. to even do it.
> 
> Note I said "...certain major...".  For sure, not all 
> content owners have the might or time to become ISP's 
> (whether for themselves or for their customers). But 
> definitely, "certain major" ones do... and we are already 
> seeing bits of that, here and there in the world...
> 
> I can't predict the future, but if "certain major" content 
> owners/networks find the barriers to entry surmountable, 
> consolidation could close the loop (certainly, if money, 
> skill and effort wasn't my problem, this would be one of my 
> strategies).

In that case, I would argue that the attempts to freeze Netflix
out in a SlowLane extortion scheme are a move by the existing
content/ISP conglomerates to do just exactly that, no?

If not, then I am completely failing to understand you point.

Owen