[pdonis]

> Companies pay for faster Internet connections all the time. That's Akamai's entire business

Akamai doesn't pay for faster connections to ISPs. They pay for more servers located at more places in the network, so that the average network distance from an Akamai server to a user is smaller, using the connections that already exist.

> Nothing about this is having the ISP's customer pay more to the ISP based on which websites they want to go to

No, it's about websites or web services paying more to ISPs so that customers can get to them at full speed instead of being throttled back, even though the website or web service is already paying to have their content on servers spread around the world so it is closer to customers.