These "investment facilitation arrangements" are available for projects in the food, agribusiness, resources, energy, transport, telecommunications, power supply and generation, environment or tourism sectors – so long as they involve companies that are substantially owned by Chinese enterprises.
Similar arrangements are available from Family and Market Harborough building societies although these lenders expect an amount equal to 20% of the purchase price to be put in a savings account linked to the mortgage as well as a 5% cash deposit from the borrower.
"In light of the above, Northern Rock has concluded that it is important to ensure that additional standby liquidity arrangements are available". The announcement helped drag down London's FTSE 100 by more than 2percentt at one point and also pushed other European exchanges lower.
According to the Journal, the rules would allow for the preferential treatment, provided that the "arrangements are available on 'commercially reasonable' terms for all interested content companies," with the FCC running arbiter on the concept of fairness.
What is required under net neutrality is that these peering and traffic prioritization arrangements are available under equitable terms to everyone; ISPs can't rig sweetheart deals giving fat pipe access to services of their choosing, while charging the competition higher rates.
The revised rules to be announced by the FCC will allow ISPs to "give preferential treatment to traffic from some content providers, as long as such arrangements are available on 'commercially reasonable' terms," reports journalist Gautham Nagesh.
The revised rules to be announced by the FCC will allow ISPs to "give preferential treatment to traffic from some content providers, as long as such arrangements are available on 'commercially reasonable' terms," reports journalist Gautham Nagesh.
