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Verizon's Mobile Video Won't Count Against Data Caps -- but Netflix Will (arstechnica.com)

Posted by timothy on from the what's-worth-what-to-whom dept.

Earthquake Retrofit writes: Ars Technica has a story about how Verizon Wireless is testing the limits of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules; Verizon has announced that it will exempt its own video service from mobile data caps—while counting data from competitors such as YouTube and Netflix against customers' caps.

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  1. Re: No transit costs. by ByTor-2112 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are wrong. Netflix will put servers physically next to Verizon's. The cost is that of a few feet of fiber and some ports. It's probably cheaper because your "general" incoming bandwidth isn't used.

  2. Re: No transit costs. by zoober · · Score: 2, Informative

    The last mile for towers and cell sites are very restricted technically. The bottle neck is NOT the backhaul. it is the number of people that can connect to a sector. It is something like 40 concurrent connections.. and they all have to share the bandwidth for that sector. Wireless just doesn't scale for high bandwidth usage.