""Dish openly admits that OTT is forcing the video industry to change. The company fears that together Comcast and TWC could harm OTT competitors at three choke points. The first would be “discriminatory peering and interconnection terms on online video traffic,” second would be intentional degradation of “traffic from competing [Online Video Distributors] OVDs on the public Internet portion of Comcast/TWC’s broadband pipe,” and third would be “starving” the public Internet portion of the last-mile portion of the broadband pipe in order to increase capacity for its own vertically integrated “managed services.”"
Absolutely. Hopefully Dish is not the only company to recognize this. I'm all for Netflix and GOOG, but obviously this is not an issue for them since they are setting up boxes/peering with cable companies, as well as paying them the "graft" (yes that was a metaphor), but this goes hand in hand with the question of: do we want Net Neutrality ... or do we want our government to kick aside all these hurdles for entities that want to bring in FTTH/FTTC? I prefer the latter ... but we need to have at least one of these acted upon or the cable companies are going to keep the USA years behind the rest of the world.
Ok..... this is where I start to actually pay more attention to Sprint/Softbank ..... and hope that they get some traction.