FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler says the U.S. lacks meaningful broadband competition and proposes a few vague solutions while also calling for higher speeds.
The FCC continues to talk a lot about the importance of peering without actually making any announcements about what it plans to ensure such agreements are fair.
Apple is reportedly in talks to set up paid peering arrangements with U.S. ISPs, but before we compare Apple to Netflix in peering fights we need more information.
Whelp, it looks like the FCC isn’t buying the Netflix and Level 3 arguments that peering is a network neutrality issue. But the agency held out hope that it might review the practice if it felt the need.
Given the options facing the FCC in the wake of a court vacating most of the net neutrality rules the agency put in place, it’s likely we’ll see a double-sided market for broadband emerge.
President Obama, nominated Tom Wheeler as the future chairman of the FCC and appointed Commissioner Mignon Clyburn as the acting chair taking over after Julius Genachowski departs the role in May.
