Global Crossing has weighed in on the peering debate in a Friday letter to the FCC that argued ISPs were trying to use peering as a smokescreen to charge content delivery networks and web service providers more for access to their subscribers. The backbone provider submitted its comments tied to the argument between Level 3 and Comcast that essentially questions who should pay for the increased traffic load associated with delivering Netflix content to Comcast’s 16.7 million broadband subscribers. This is the two-sided business model I argued that Comcast was trying to implement when I said the Comcast Level 3 argument might break the web…

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