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Challenges to communications regulation posed by technology convergence

Scott Jordan Department of Computer Science University of California, Irvine

The big regulatory challenge: convergence

Telephone network Internet Cell phone networks Cable tv networks Internet Everything-Over-IP

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Open vs. closed models

Telephone network Internet Cell phone networks Cable tv networks Internet Everything-Over-IP

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Title II Title II / III Title VI Title II

Device attachment

Telephone network Internet Cell phone networks Cable tv networks Internet Everything-Over-IP

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Carterfone Open Internet CableCard Open Internet

Universal service

Telephone network Internet Cell phone networks Cable tv networks Internet Everything-Over-IP

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USF USF (mobility) (cross- subsidies) USF (broadband)

Challenge: Where does the Title II service begin?

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Comcast Level3 Netflix backend CDN CDN

IXP

Peering

IXP

Peering

Challenge: Using one service to protect another

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data cap base plan price average price per GB heavy-user cap profit-maximizing cap protect incumbent video service $/month GB/month

Challenge: What services fall under which Title?

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WiFi WiFi STB OTT video (Netflix, Hulu) app website On- Demand Live / Recorded Cable video

• ver IP

capacity for MVPD services capacity for BIAS MVPD partitions capacity for cable services between live and

• n-demand video

MVPD may claim cable video over IP does not use BIAS capacity, and is thus not counted against data cap

Challenge: Application-specific treatment

• Modification of content

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Video transcoding

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Web caching

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Image compression

• Throttling based on class of application

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video streaming

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video downloads

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music streaming

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gaming

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tethering

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application-based capacity allocation

• Zero rating

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