On: Sprint Will Sell a $12 Wireless Plan that Only Con...

[3pt14159]

Do they understand that if they do this it is just as easy for a company like Youtube to cut off complete access to them?

Try to put my site in a package = no access for any of your customers.

[tlrobinson → 3pt14159]

I like Netflix's approach: very publicly blame Verizon's network http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/netflix-refuses-t...

[grecy → 3pt14159]

They're talking to the companies in question.

i.e. they won't offer a "Netflix" package with Netflix's agreement.

[grecy → grecy]

EDIT: Above - should be

they won't offer a "Netflix" package WITHOUT Netflix's agreement.

[anoncow → grecy]

If companies get into such deals with the isp's they should be blamed. What if tomorrow Google forbids any ISP from creating a Google pack or say Facebook? That would help the cause of net neutrality. Can we have companies supporting the cause oppose such packs?

[grecy → anoncow]

I actually don't know how the companies feel about it, I am not part of the discussions being had, I just hear about them after the fact.

I know we're under very strict conditions that we're not even allowed to say we even have local caches, much less who we have caches for.