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Two thoughts
by Rob Frieden
Judging from the express reservation of the IPTV AT&T network, I bet we'll see a dispute about whether fiber is included. First would fiber be included as part of wireline Internet access when the FCC has made a copper/glass and legacy/new field distinction? Second why would AT&T expressly take Uverse/IPTV networks off the table if they didn't think they were safeguarding fiber? Third what difference does it make when the FCC has abdicated any responsibility for oversight of information networks beyond CALEA and E911? AT&T has a conditional net neutrality commitment from the IXP closest to the end user onward to the enduser. So it has no net neutrality responsibility upstream and may have offer superior QOS guarantees such that Content Provider A's bits always get to the IXP on "better than best efforts terms." That may not trouble me, but going to the point about the scope of AT&T's commitment, I'm not sure they have offered much, particularly since AT&T probably will self provision to the closest IXP and may do so onward.
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