Comment Re:Alternative explanation (Score 1) 398
The sending provider pays the receiving provider for the bandwidth, and this is the only rational way it can be.
Right..... because when Verizon customer's pay for internet connection service, and Verizon customers request pages and media from Wikipedia.... Wikipedia should pay Verizon. That totally makes sense. On crack.
packets originating on their network
Everything is originating on Verizon's network..... Verizon customer's are the ones wanting to open a connection to Netfix and request the data.
When I make a phonecall to someone, and I spend 99% of the call listening to what that person has to say, NO ONE is going to buy that my local phone company can SEND A BILL TO THE PERSON I CALLED.
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