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Monday. The company met with officials from the Engineering and Technology, Strategic Planning & Policy Analysis and General Counsel’s offices, the Wireline Bureau and the agency’s chief technology officer, said the filing. Netflix officials involved in the meeting were Ken Florance, vice president-content delivery, Chris Libertelli, vice president-global public policy, and Corie Wright, director-global public policy, along with counsel Markham Erickson, Steptoe & Johnson partner. It’s a myth that Netflix deliberately chose to deliver traffic over congested routes, the company said in the filing. “In the case of Comcast, Netflix purchased all available transit to reach Comcast’s network. Every single one of those transit links to Comcast was congested (even though the transit providers requested extra capacity). The only other available routes into Comcast’s network were those where Comcast required an access fee,” the filing said. However, Comcast thinks “Netflix’s definition of ‘available transit’ is an ideological one,” Comcast told us in a statement. There were many routes available “that would not have required any payment from Netflix to Comcast, which is how Netflix got its content to us, without issue, until it changed its practices,” Comcast said . “Netflix can choose to avoid congestion or inflict it. How Netflix routes its own traffic is all about improving their business model. Independent commenters have pointed out that Netflix commercial transit decisions created these issues,” the statement said.