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: OTT
From Over-The-Air To Over-The-Top
Mobile viewing is helping align the OTT interests of the broadcast networks and their affiliates. Read More …
Who Wants To Be An MVPD?
The FCC extend program access rights to OTT services, but does anyone want them? 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 …
HBO Leaves in the Middle Man
HBO just can’t quit the bundle. With HBO Now, its new, over-the-top streaming service, the network for the first time is making its content available to stream without a pay-TV subscription. But HBO still hopes to sell it as part of a bundle. The only differences are the the other components of the bundle and Read More …