{"id":11383,"date":"2014-04-28T21:47:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T04:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=11383"},"modified":"2014-04-28T21:47:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T04:47:34","slug":"netflix-signs-peering-deal-with-verizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/04\/28\/netflix-signs-peering-deal-with-verizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Signs Peering Deal with Verizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13854\" style=\"font-style:inherit;\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Netflix-and-Verizon.jpg\" alt=\"Netflix and Verizon\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-style:inherit;color:#21759b;\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/04\/28\/verizon-inks-paid-peering-deal-with-netflix\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style:italic;color:#444444;\">\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;color:#2a2e33;\">Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may really hate the peering deal he signed with Comcast, but that didn\u2019t stop him from entering a similar partnership with another ISP: Verizon and Netflix have also agreed on a paid peering relationship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;color:#2a2e33;\">News of that pact was first broken Monday afternoon on by BTIG Research\u2019s Walter Piecyk, who\u00a0<a style=\"color:#009bff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WaltBTIG\/status\/460894378220060673\">tweeted Monday afternoon<\/a>\u00a0that Verizon CEO Lowell C. McAdam had confirmed the commercial relationship between the two companies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;color:#2a2e33;\">As a customer of both Netflix and Verizon I should welcome this. As a technologist, I am not so sure if this is a good thing in the long run for consumers in general.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;color:#2a2e33;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13853\" style=\"font-style:inherit;\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Netflix-House-of-Cards-Unwatchable-on-Verizon-FiOS.jpg\" alt=\"Netflix House of Cards Unwatchable on Verizon FiOS\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;color:#2a2e33;\">There are more dominoes to fall following\u00a0<a style=\"font-style:inherit;color:#21759b;\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.netflix.com\/2014\/03\/internet-tolls-and-case-for-strong-net.html\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix deal<\/a>\u00a0with Comcast and Verizon. It would affect more companies other than Netflix and ultimately consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigaom: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may really hate the peering deal he signed with Comcast, but that didn\u2019t stop him from entering a similar partnership with another ISP: Verizon and Netflix have also agreed on a paid peering relationship. News of that pact was first broken Monday afternoon on by BTIG Research\u2019s Walter Piecyk, who\u00a0tweeted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/04\/28\/netflix-signs-peering-deal-with-verizon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netflix Signs Peering Deal with Verizon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[721,1125,1537,2137,2138,936,3113],"class_list":["post-11383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-comcast","tag-fios","tag-internet","tag-net-neutrality","tag-netflix","tag-tech","tag-verizon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2XB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}