The telcos will not win this war. The content providers have been building their own networks since the telcos are still looking to old regulation that does not reflect the current market.

https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/death-of-transit-the-evolving-role-of-ixps/ discussed this issue at length

• more traffic is coming from AS belonging to content providers

• competitive forces

• Content providers have now bypassed the big boys network curtails

• advertising

• building their own network backbones

• privatised internet traffic - moving away from transit networks

• customer has become bigger than the provider

• content providers vs Tier1 Network providers

• traditional telcos did not evolve and are now dying out

• The market

• Content providers

• CSP

• CDNs

• Backbone providers

• Tier 1

• IXPs

• pni vs public peering

• ISPs

• 3 mobile providers per country

Regards

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From: Mwendwa Kivuva via KICTANet
Sent: Friday, October 8, 2021 12:42 PM
To: Alex Watila
Cc: Mwendwa Kivuva
Subject: [kictanet] Should streaming services pay ISPs for increased traffic?

In the United States, Netflix has been paying a fee to broadband provider Comcast Corp for faster streaming speeds. 

South Korea's ISP SK Broadband has sued Netflix to pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work because of a surge of viewers to the U.S. firm's content.

Seoul court said Netflix should "reasonably" give something in return to the internet service provider for network usage, and multiple South Korean lawmakers have spoken out against content providers who do not pay for network usage despite generating explosive traffic.

other content providers such as Amazon, Apple and Facebook are paying SK Broadband for usage of the network.

Should content providers compensate network providers for increased traffic to their network? Is this a net neutrality issue where all content should be treated equally?

https://lnkd.in/dNjbFVeC