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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
At the moment, it appears that the content providers are getting that bandwidth free, so there is no cost to them or to us. I assume they are working within the limits set, but when these are in danger of being exceeded, I dare say there will be some conversations about who will pay for the extra capacity. At that point, we will pay extra one way or another, either by higher broadband fees or higher streamer charges.
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Not sure that’s totally accurate - don’t websites & content providers pay CDNs to keep more localised copies of their content (and in turn, CDNs pay the ISPs for hosting).
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