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05-30-2014, 04:40 AM
Despite Deal, Netflix CEO Blasts Comcast
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RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, Calif. — One day after Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said Netflix wants to push a huge amount of Internet traffic through the cable company's pipes, but doesn't want to pay for it, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings hit back — saying Comcast wants to be a mo**poly that's charging for access to its subscribers and "pulling profits out of the system."
The online video content company that accounts for roughly one-third of all Internet traffic, and one of the largest cable and Internet companies in the country are locked in a bizarre partnership battle. Netflix recently agreed (http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/verizon-peering-netflix-comcast/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) to start paying Comcast for direct and better access to Comcast subscribers at, according to Roberts, a better rate than they got from other transit providers, and Netflix promptly turned around and criticized (http://blog.netflix.com/2014/04/the-case-against-isp-tolls.html) the deal it had just made. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/reed-hastings-netflix-comcast-blast/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, Calif. — One day after Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said Netflix wants to push a huge amount of Internet traffic through the cable company's pipes, but doesn't want to pay for it, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings hit back — saying Comcast wants to be a mo**poly that's charging for access to its subscribers and "pulling profits out of the system."
The online video content company that accounts for roughly one-third of all Internet traffic, and one of the largest cable and Internet companies in the country are locked in a bizarre partnership battle. Netflix recently agreed (http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/verizon-peering-netflix-comcast/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) to start paying Comcast for direct and better access to Comcast subscribers at, according to Roberts, a better rate than they got from other transit providers, and Netflix promptly turned around and criticized (http://blog.netflix.com/2014/04/the-case-against-isp-tolls.html) the deal it had just made. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/reed-hastings-netflix-comcast-blast/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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