On Jul 30, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 06:21:46 PM Owen DeLong wrote: > >> Yes and no… >> >> The barrier to Netflix becoming a consumer ISP is very >> high… 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
