> Google. In the early 2000s they bought up a bunch of dark fiber and peered with all the major US ISPs, and they were able to do this because no ISP wants to be the one that blocks or degrades Google. As a result they were able to host video streaming on their network without immediately being shut down by Comcast and co.
This sounds like a good answer, but falls away drastically when you realise the vast majority of consumer of YouTube are outside of the USA, which in turn means so are those bandwidth costs.
Are you guessing or have I missed something here? I can't see how this could be a significant enough factor to make the global model work.
This sounds like a good answer, but falls away drastically when you realise the vast majority of consumer of YouTube are outside of the USA, which in turn means so are those bandwidth costs.
Are you guessing or have I missed something here? I can't see how this could be a significant enough factor to make the global model work.