On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 17:12, Richard Naylor wrote:
To give you a very real example. LOTR-3 Premiere. We got paid nothing for webcasting the event. Based on the extra traffic that went to TCL, they earned $250,000 in 5 hours of webcast. Not small change. TCNZ would have earned around $500,000 had they peered properly. The others probably earned around another $250,000
My sister-in-law's workplace racked up a $4,000 bill watching the LOTR webcast over Telecom's ADSL. The arguments being put forward for charging for peering are just another nail in the coffin of any belief in business with integrity. They are already billing for this traffic - and heavily so. Maybe the new flat-rate plans are "forcing" them to displace the expectation of revenue from the user to the provider....as they did with IP NET and associated usage charges.