Re: Why is Mark Zuckerberg angry at critics in India?

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Traffic carried has a real cost Arun
>

​Of course it does, but it is a lot less than the telcos pretend. I don't
disagree with your arguments, Suresh, I just feel that this is not
something that TRAI can regulate, lacking the powers, nor should.

Arun Mehta​



>
> The content networks have a huge incentive to leverage the cheapest
> peering deals that they have available, possibly at levels beyond what some
> of the telcos (the eyeball network ones) who have those peering deals find
> economical or comfortable to them.
>
> So they try to limit the terms of whatever cheap / all inclusive type deal
> was worked out; when it gets leveraged beyond normal / expected use.
>
> A simple analogy would be an all you can eat / unlimited meal at rs 100
> restaurant where Kumbhakarna from the Ramayana suddenly turns up after a
> millennia long sleep, pays a hundred bucks and proceeds to eat everything
> in sight.
>
> The situation is rather more complex than that of course
>
> http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs//document/view.action?id=7021239457
>
>
>
> --srs
>
> On 03-Jan-2016, at 11:48 AM, Arun Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> And the analogy is terrible. Interconnect charges are a nonsense the
> telcos and their lawyers thought up -- this isn't a real cost.
>
>

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