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New FCC Report Says AT&T and Verizon Zero-Rating Violates Net Neutrality (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Just a week and a half before he is set to leave office, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has issued a new report stating that the zero-rated video services offered by ATT and Verizon may violate the FCC's Open Internet Order. Assembled by the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, the report focuses on sponsored data programs, which allow companies to pay carriers to exempt exempt their data from customers' data caps. According to the report, many of those packages simply aren't playing fair. "While observing that ATT provided incomplete responses to staff inquires," Wheeler wrote to Senators, "the report states that the limited information available supports a conclusion that ATT offers Sponsored Data to third-party content providers at terms and conditions that are effectively less favorable than those it offers to its affiliate, DirecTV." In theory, sponsored data should be an even playing field, with providers bearing the costs and making the same charges regardless of who's footing the bill. But according to the report, ATT treats the DirectTV partnership very differently from an unaffiliated sponsored data system, giving the service a strong advantage over competitors. "ATT appears to view the network cost of Sponsored Data for DIRECTV Now as effectively de minimis," the report concludes. While ATT still bears some cost for all that free traffic, it's small enough that the carrier doesn't seem to care. The report raises similar concerns regarding Verizon's Go90 program, although it concludes Verizon's program may be less damaging. Notably, the letter does not raise the same concerns about T-Mobile's BingeOn video deal, since it "charges all edge providers the same zero rate for participating."
It's because Obama's term is coming to an end. So that means, loads of bullshit and lots of monkey wrenches thrown into Trumps new selections because Clinton didn't win. People can whine over it all they want, but if Clinton had won we wouldn't even be having this discussion right now. And this entire thing would still be sitting in limbo.
If Clinton had won, you would be fighting in Trump's revolutionary army and decrying the continued Democratic tyranny. Which ok, would amount to you trolling on the Internet some more, so no, we would be having this discussion, and you'd be doing the same things as you are now.
Whining. Whining. Whining.
Couldn't Trump find a non-racist attorney general candidate? Couldn't Trump find a candidate for secretary of state who knew what a war crime was? Couldn't Trump find a way to not create more conflicts of interest?
...so you really are deaf, dumb, blind and stupid... the cult of christianity has been jamming it's mythology down everyone's throat since before this country existed. It's thanks to the foresight of folks like Jefferson that we aren't totally under the thumb of the christians and their version of sharia law (but only just barely).
The reason the christians are so pissed at the muslims is that they have what the christians so desperately want, total domination in their sphere of influence. The funny thing is christians had that during the, so called, holy roman empire and then they lost it when mankind started to actually think a little. I suppose that is why the christians are so pissed at the catholics these days. I expect we would still have war and devastation without religion, but at least then it would hopefully be for something real instead of imaginary.