Gilgamesh79

What legal safeguards are in place to prevent the FCC from interfering in peering arrangements?

If there are no such prohibitions, why will the transfer of bandwidth costs from BigContent to BigTelco not result in either higher fees for consumers or lower capital expenditure on network capacity by telcos?

With respect to interconnect/peering: If the content creators aren't willing to shoulder the cost of their content's burden on the network beyond the last mile, what then, other than direct price controls, does the FCC have in its arsenal to prevent telcos from simply passing the cost of carrying that content from the creator to the telco customer? And wouldn't the result be a forced subsidization of that content creator by telco consumers who may not even consume that particular content?

Thank you for answering.

So that I understand your position: The next time Netflix and Comcast get into a tizzy, if the FCC sides with Netflix it's your assertion that Comcast will not pass along those costs to its subscribers? Or is your assertion that Comcast will shift those costs to its subscribers and that it is fair to do so?