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It should also be noted, that this makes perfect sense with regards to the way the telcos see the world - selling discrete well-provisioned services. This is the classic datagrams versus circuits battle, still burning strong decades letter. And of course that's because this is where the money is - differentiated services lead to price discrimination and high profit margins, while commodity bits are a highly competitive race to the bottom. And as computing power keeps dropping in price, they both require ever-similar infrastructure buildout (contrary to "End-to-End Arguments in System Design")