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comment by rob05c
rob05c  ·  3879 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

    does that mean that with these paid priority lanes, connections across borders will be throttled as well?

I don't believe so.

A cross-border connection goes from the provider's Tier 3 ISP, up to a Tier 1 ISP, back down thru the other country's citizen's Tier 3 ISP.

It's the consumer-facing Tier 3 ISPs in America which are violating Net Neutrality. Tier 1 providers are typically international and Net Neutrality generally benefits them.

Big services like Netflix have business-grade service with their providers (often CDNs above Tier 3 level), which dictate upstream bandwidth as part of the contract.