Verizon Chooses Sides, While Level 3 Keeps Fighting With Comcast

Verizon says it supports Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) in the cable giant’s ongoing face off with Level 3 over who should bear the cost of increased web video traffic. In a recent letter [PDF] to the FCC commenting on proposed net neutrality rules, Verizon characterizes Level 3 as a company involved in a “routine negotiation over the terms of a peering arrangement” that has simply decided to convert it into a net neutrality dispute. There’s nothing wrong with Comcast taking “relative traffic flow” between the networks into account and then reaching a decision Level 3 ought to pay it something for heavy traffic on its network, says Verizon.

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