Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices

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toes_that_twinkle 12/5/2012 | 3:01:22 PM

re: Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices streamingmedia is reporting that LR got the quote wrong:

http://blog.streamingmedia.com...

No idea which is right

toes

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Honestly 12/5/2012 | 3:01:22 PM

re: Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices Ryan, this is what i predicted last time your wrote about it. Only thing Akam can offer is service layer products, but you are the money, Akam and especially Limelight will feel the pain from L3. The game has now changed. Great news for us consumers

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Ryan Lawler 12/5/2012 | 3:01:22 PM

re: Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices Is there any way other CDNs (especially smaller companies and startups) can compete now that Level 3 has priced its content delivery services at the same cost it takes others just to deliver those services?

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Ryan Lawler 12/5/2012 | 3:01:22 PM

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litereading 12/5/2012 | 3:01:21 PM

re: Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices Still, leave it to Level (3) to start a price war and trash a whole industry. So long as they have money to burn, they will torch the industry. Will they ever make money this decade?

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DCITDave 12/5/2012 | 3:01:20 PM

re: Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices I clarified information attributed to the Level 3 exec and updated the story, but none of the direct quotes in the story are wrong.

As someone else pointed out, the real news here is that Level 3 is claiming that it will offer CDN services for the same price competitors would pay for just one component of their CDN services.

ph

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Honestly 12/5/2012 | 3:01:14 PM

re: Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices On the money Phil. I say to L3. bring it on. I think they will also figure out how to sell services to make quality margin.

From the comsumer perspective this is great. I will have more options for content and content creators will be able to afford to push great stuff out into cyberspace.

As for Limelight, put your seat belts on, could be a tough landing.

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desiEngineer 12/5/2012 | 3:01:14 PM

re: Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices Honestly,

"On the money Phil. I say to L3. bring it on. I think they will also figure out how to sell services to make quality margin."

Level 3 makes money as in revenue, not money as in income. From mid-2001, they have done nothing that excites Wall St. except buy companies with revenue (not earnings) to meet their debt convenants.

-desi

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Bones 12/5/2012 | 3:01:13 PM

re: Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices I miss the old days of Light Reading where this story would have resulted in a discussion of whether the costs of transit and caching/serving were the same.

I would guess that excluding the large fixed cost of their network, that CDN would be more expensive operationally than transit.

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