Tag: FCC

FCC Unloads, Releases 313-page Report and Order on Net Neutrality

Posted onAuthorPaul Sweeting

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

Posted onAuthorPaul Sweeting

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

Posted onAuthorPaul Sweeting

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 …

The next OTT battleground: Zero-rating

Posted onAuthorPaul Sweeting4 Comments

The FCC this week is expected to approve on a party-line vote chairman Tom Wheeler’s long-gestating plan to impose new net neutrality rules by reclassifying internet access as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act, setting in motion a process by which the world will finally get to see the full text of Read More …