You've missed the part where they're trying to double-bill for the same network traffic.
Verizon wants to bill it's customers for the bandwidth that they use. And then for some of that traffic, if it's from Netflix, they also want to bill Netflix.
Verizon is the company which is selling asymmetric internet plans so it should come as no surprise to Verizon that their customers are requesting more data than they're sending.
But they use this asymmetry to suggest that what's happening between Verizon and Level3 isn't business as usual (which it is) and that they should be able to double bill.
Verizon is doing a decent job of spinning but if you really look at what's going on it becomes clear that they're really torturing definitions to make their arguments.
Verizon wants to bill it's customers for the bandwidth that they use. And then for some of that traffic, if it's from Netflix, they also want to bill Netflix.
Verizon is the company which is selling asymmetric internet plans so it should come as no surprise to Verizon that their customers are requesting more data than they're sending.
But they use this asymmetry to suggest that what's happening between Verizon and Level3 isn't business as usual (which it is) and that they should be able to double bill.
Verizon is doing a decent job of spinning but if you really look at what's going on it becomes clear that they're really torturing definitions to make their arguments.