ISPs Looking to Charge Content Providers - A Cause for Imbalance

Author: Philip Solis, Research Director, Mobile Devices

Published: 18 Jan 2011

ISPs (including mobile operators) are increasingly looking to grow revenue by taking a share of content companies' profits. They are complaining that they have rising costs to deliver the data, but that is why they charge end users monthly fees - so they can deliver Internet traffic to their customers who are paying for that Internet access. ISPs were more than happy before video picked up and their customers were underusing their networks but were still paying the same monthly price. Let’s step back and take a closer look at what’s happening now that this has changed.

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