Continuing to permit Internet service providers to charge...
Continuing to permit Internet service providers to charge interconnection fees to online content providers is likely to increase effective video service prices to consumers, said David Waterman, professor emeritus at Indiana University’s telecom department, at a Sept. 11 panel that…
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wasn’t on the record, recounted an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1wHLZZC) posted in docket 14-28 Wednesday. But trying to regulate the payments under a commercially reasonable standard “would be difficult because the variations in these payments are primarily a result of bargaining between ISPs and content providers that have varying degrees of market power,” the filing said. Waterman spoke at the Regulating the Evolving Broadband Ecosystem conference at the FCC, co-hosted by the American Enterprise Institute and the University of Nebraska.