Red Rock Eater Digest: a primer on global internet finance. ‘Who pays for the Internet? “The answer is either really long or

really short depending on what you’re trying to say,” says Scott

Bradner, a leading Internet expert at Harvard University. The

Internet does not have a set economic model, so there’s no standard

way network providers are remunerated for the resources they use.

End of story.

The longer answer is more complicated…’