It is not particularly about peering even tough it is a similar story.
BellSouth wants to have an organisation like Apple pay for providing
bandwith to its customers. This in turn means that by subscribing to
an ISP you are giving it the "power" to abuse this final mile control.
With South Africa it is different in that access to South Africa from
American resources is relatively expensive. This can be negated by
moving resources closer to Africa.
It would be interesting to know what is more expensive, connecting
Africa from Europe compared to connecting Africa from the USA. This
could factor in where resources of the Wikimedia Foundation are
located. We are according to Alexa the 19th website in the world. When
we move because of schemes like this, it might be noticed.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 1/18/06, Andy Rabagliati <andyr(a)wizzy.com> wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Chris Jenkinson wrote:
I propose that if BellSouth go ahead with this
stupid idea of theirs, we
block access to all people connecting from BellSouth and tell them to
switch their ISP. They will learn fast enough that their idea is stupid.
BellSouth provide the customers.
They think they can charge the Content Providers.
This is a very old debate, about Peering. All the major ISPs are
familiar with it. The bigger Dogs get to charge the smaller Dogs.
I live in South Africa - we (as a country) pay to peer - we are a
smaller Dog. America never pays to peer. Europe used to - I am not sure
they do any more.
BellSouth think they are a Big Dog.
Cheers, Andy!
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