Comment Re:It's not arrogant, it's correct. (Score 1) 466
It's simple, AT&T should increase their subscription costs to pull them more in line with actual costs for keeping the infrastructure running flawlessly, or decrease the advertised technical parameters of their end user connections, or both. Blaming it on Netflix doesn't seem fair.
How is that not fair? External networks like Netflix are hugely disproportionate users of ISP's infrastructure. Who should be "blamed" for that flood of traffic if not hte ? If those specific sources of traffic, on the other side of a peering relationship, weren't there, this wouldn't be an issue. A handful of traffic sources are burning up the lion's share of the bandwidth, and making money off of their customers while doing so. Why should an AT&T customer who doesn't drink from the Netflix firehose have to subsidize the people that do? Let Netflix and AT&T work out those costs, and let the people who actually consume the traffic pay the tab in the form of slightly higher prices for the entertainment they want from Netflix. Expecting their neighbors pay for it, instead, is pretty jerky.