Expect More Talk About Peering
Early next week Comcast file an application with the FCC for a formal review of the proposed Time Warner Cable transaction. And once that happens, the Federal Communications Commission will have an excellent opportunity to get some of the data it will need to decide if it should regulate interconnection agreements between last-mile ISPs such as Comcast and other companies selling bandwidth or content over IP.
This isn’t about content, it’s about access.