What is very interesting about this verizon cogent communications fight is that neither party admits to having done anything wrong. I remember comcast had a similar battle with cogent where what ended up happening is that the fcc had to step in to see if in fact comcast was intentionally denying their customers access to certain content because of a potential financial gain that could be had for comcast. I think that comcast customers also made a ton of complaints on the fcc website about the peering issue between comcast and cogent communications where the fcc eventually forced them to settle. If you want more details about it google "comcast cogent fcc." Redbox would benefit from the verizon cogent fight in more ways than one and people need to be reminded that redbox is a company that was created by the former vice president of netflix who thought that he could come up with a better way of getting people to watch movies. His goal was to prove that his previous employer netflix was wrong in the way they were doing things and beat them at their own game in the dvd rental and movie streaming business.
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