Friday, July 18, 2014

Verizon’s Accidental Mea Culpa

ISP Level 3's blog Beyond Bandwidth explains Verizon’s Accidental Mea Culpa.

"His explanation for Netflix’s on-screen congestion messages contains a nice little diagram. The diagram shows a lovely uncongested Verizon network, conveniently color-coded in green. It shows a network that has lots of unused capacity at the most busy time of the day. Think about that for a moment: Lots of unused capacity. So point number one is that Verizon has freely admitted that is has the ability to deliver lots of Netflix streams to broadband customers requesting them, at no extra cost. But, for some reason, Verizon has decided that it prefers not to deliver these streams, even though its subscribers have paid it to do so."

I have to say, I haven't seen many problems using Netflix over my FiOS connection.

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