The pertinent question is what time period Level 3 was looking at / averaging when writing the blog post.
Even if Comcast and Level 3 are not congested right at this moment, they were most definitely congested several years following their landmark agreement. A better question would be why that is/was. Drive Slow, Paul Wall On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Livingood, Jason <jason_living...@cable.comcast.com> wrote: > Hi Jeff – I noticed the question posed here so thought I’d respond, perhaps > at risk of stirring up a hornet’s nest given how long the last thread was. > ;-) Anyway… there’s no congestion between Comcast and Level 3 connections, > and we’re working collaboratively with Level 3. Given these facts, we have > no reason to believe that Comcast is on their list. > > - Jason > Comcast > > On 5/8/14, 1:18 PM, "=JeffH" > <jeff.hod...@kingsmountain.com<mailto:jeff.hod...@kingsmountain.com>> wrote: > > Level 3 accuses five unnamed US ISPs of abusing their market power in peering > http://gigaom.com/2014/05/05/level-3-accuses-five-unnamed-us-isps-of-abusing-their-market-power-in-peering/ > > "...I’d love to see Cogent, Google and other providers release their data > next, so even if the FCC doesn’t want to pursue this, a growing cry of > consumer outrage could push the agency to do something about a very real and > difficult problem that’s crippling access to video content on 5 U.S. > broadband networks. Level 3 didn’t name names, but based on the deals Netflix > has signed and the complaints it has made about AT&T, I’m confident that > AT&T, Verizon and Comcast are among the five. " > >
