Cloud Insight

Short note - Interesting battle in UK? Can the clouds carry this to other places?

There is interesting battle between ISPs and BBC on who pays for the extra bandwidth used by BBC’s iPlayer which serves up video content.

Can the ISPs in US do the same for content on Youtube or video google where you have watched the laughing baby thousands of times, who guarantees the QoS, the content provider or the transporter?

If so, where does this stop? If you start using services such as Amazon S3 and pulling large files over the ISP provided bandwidth, who pays for the extra bandwidth usage? Will enterprises use cloud based services if they have to pay for extra bandwidth? Will it be metered or unlimited services? Is this the reason, Google wants to invest in spectrum in the air and fiber in the ground?

Again, interesting times!