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		pilom on Nov 30, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stol... Right, where comcast pays L3 to deliver what comcast has to send. L3 still needs to pay someone (either comcast or someone else) to take the what they have to offer. No one wants traffic, thats why L3 has to pay to send Netflix to customers.

wmf on Nov 30, 2010 [–]

Usually in a transit relationship the customer pays for the whole pipe; there isn't accounting of incoming vs. outgoing.

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