The FCC can fix this situation first by prohibiting a broadband access provider from blocking any lawful application, service, content or device and then can provide either a technological (for example, 4G wireless) or time-limited (for example, one year) glide path to full non-discrimination.
"As the only major market participant not affiliated with a content or TV device platform, Roku has used its neutrality to strike deals with a wide range of partners, including smart TV makers, over-the-top service providers and social media companies," said Paul Verna, principal video analyst at eMarketer.
[Broadband providers] shall not unreasonably interfere with or unreasonably disadvantage end users' ability to select, access, and use broadband Internet access service or the lawful Internet content, applications, services, or devices of their choice, or edge providers' ability to make lawful content, applications, services, or devices available to end users.
No blocking of any lawful content, applications, services or devices.
His "Half True" rating was instead based on the so-called "general conduct" rule, which prohibited broadband internet access service providers from unreasonably interfering with or unreasonably disadvantaging end users' ability to select, access and use BIAS or the content, applications, services, or devices of their choice.
The basic distinction suggested by these definitions is that some distinguishable subset of end users use broadband Internet access to provide content, applications, or services (or devices to access content, applications, or services), and these end users are edge providers.
First, we'll be able to create device to device content or payment exchanges.
However, the issue will not be content or what platform or device you watch it on-as confusing as it is... do I watch on my big TV through Samsung, Fios, Xbox, Amazon or link my iPad?
The concise version of the cable box story is that the FCC has proposed rules for cable companies and other MVPDs (Multichannel Video Programming Distributors) that would allow third-party device manufacturers and app developers access on prescribed terms to cable programming streams, so that cable subscribers can view content on devices or apps of their choice.
Mr. Kruzel correctly concluded that this wouldn't have violated the FCC's "no throttling" rule, which only prohibited discriminatory throttling on the basis of internet content, application, service, or device type.
