> My hypothesis is that if Netflix/Youtube hadn't stressed out our bandwidth and forced the ISPs of the world upgrade for the last decade, the world wouldn't have been ready for WFH of the covid world.
Couldn't agree more.
We see the opposite when it comes to broadband monopolies: "barely good enough" DSL infrastructure, congested HFC, and adversarial relationships w.r.t. subscriber privacy and experience.
When it became worthwhile to invest in not just peering but also last-mile because poor Netflix/YouTube/Disney+/etc performance was a reason for users to churn away, they invested.
This isn't to say that this is all "perfect" for consumers either, but this tension has only been good for consumers vs. what we had in the 90's and early-mid 00's.
Couldn't agree more.
We see the opposite when it comes to broadband monopolies: "barely good enough" DSL infrastructure, congested HFC, and adversarial relationships w.r.t. subscriber privacy and experience.
When it became worthwhile to invest in not just peering but also last-mile because poor Netflix/YouTube/Disney+/etc performance was a reason for users to churn away, they invested.
This isn't to say that this is all "perfect" for consumers either, but this tension has only been good for consumers vs. what we had in the 90's and early-mid 00's.