We give companies like Netflix and Akamai free access to space
and power in our facilities and they provide their own content
servers.
We don’t make money from peering or colocation; since people
usually only stream one video at a time, video traffic doesn’t
bog down or change the way we manage our network in any meaningful
way — so why not help enable it?
But we also don’t charge because it’s really a win-win-win situation.
It’s good for content providers because they can deliver really
high-quality streaming video to their customers... It’s good
for us because it saves us money (it’s easier to transport video
traffic from a local server than it is to transport it thousands
of miles). But most importantly, we do this because it gives
Fiber users the fastest, most direct route to their content.