Get Ready to Rumble; FCC Launches Net Neutrality Rollback
For streaming services the biggest change would be elimination of the general conduct rule Read More …
Tag: interconnection
Netflix Ponders Life Without Net Neutrality
“We are now popular enough with consumers to keep our relationships with ISPs stable,” Read More …
Court to ISPs: You Really Are Just Dumb Pipes
Insofar as a two-sided market is baked into ISPs’ valuations, those assumptions need adjusting Read More …
FCC Unloads, Releases 313-page Report and Order on Net Neutrality
Should the rules survive legal challenge the fun would just be starting for the OTT business. The general conduct standard under which interconnection arrangements will be reviewed expressly exempts “reasonable network management” from liability. But exactly how, whether and when “reasonable network management” shades into “unreasonably disadvantage[ing]” an edge provider are the sort of devilish details that are likely to occupy a lot of FCC bandwidth in the future. Read More …
Finger-pointing over interconnection
When a consumer’s OTT video stream starts rebuffering, or suffers packet losses resulting in degraded quality, it’s often hard to know where to direct blame. The problem is typically caused by congestion somewhere between the content’s originating server and the consumer’s receiving device. But exactly where in the chain of transit that congestion is occurring, Read More …