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Were Level 3’s Charges Against Comcast Overblown?

Yesterday, Level 3 created a stir by accusing Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) of violating net neutrality. Today, the row between the two companies is looking a lot more like a garden-variety commercial dispute that has little to do with net neutrality.

But Comcast’s peering policy been posted online since January, and its competitor AT&T (NYSE: T) also has a peering policy of not carrying others’ traffic at more than a 2:1 ratio without asking for “suitable actions to balance transport costs.” Those suggest this really is standard operating procedure.

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