WHY THIS MATTERS:By way of comparison, Akamai noted that the campaign's other top live-streaming event -- the first Presidential debate on Sept. 26 -- peaked at 4.4 Tbps.
WHY THIS MATTERS:While Trump has already taken aim at the AT&T-Time Warner deal and the Comcast-NBCU merger, he also took issue with the FCC's reclassification of ISPs as common carriers, which NCTA strongly opposed, so they could find common ground there.