The FCC’s Imperfect Path To Increased Video Competition
Robust wireless video services could break cable-ISPs video monopoly on their end users. Read More …
Tag: net neutrality
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 …
Net Neutrality: Interconnection Covered, But Not By ‘Bright Line’ Rules
After a flurry of last-minute lobbying and internal debate the FCC ultimately backed off its plan to define interconnection arrangements between ISPs and third-party content and applications providers as distinct service separate from last-mile internet access service in its Open Internet order, which it approved today by a 3-2 party line vote. But the commission asserted Read More …
For OTT providers, ‘strong’ Net Neutrality may be losing its strength
Don’t look now OTT fans but the net neutrality rules expected to be enacted Thursday by the FCC may turn out to be not as OTT-friendly as it originally appeared they would be. When FCC chairman Tom Wheeler unveiled his “fact sheet” on the upcoming rules on Feb. 4, it looked as if the commission Read More …