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		orangecat on Feb 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the CRTC was right on Usage-Based Billing Charging something per byte is reasonable. Charging 100 times cost is not.

rfugger on Feb 4, 2011 [–]

Cost isn't cost to transfer the next GB though, it's the cost to build an infrastructure that can provide decent QoS to all the Netflix users. It's a much different equation.

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