By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 6-28-23
Video streamers and other edge providers are fighting a multi-front war in Washington lately, as Congress applies pressure on the FCC to apply good-faith negotiation rules to over-the-top content providers, as it does traditional video providers, and as hundreds of rural broadband providers and associations call on the agency to make edge providers contribute to broadband buildout subsidies….
Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) last week wrote FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel asking her to revive an inquiry, this time focused on good-faith negotiation rules related to edge provider aggregation of news content from print and broadcast sources.
Rosenworcel has recently suggested that Congress may have to step in to give the FCC the regulatory authority that the Cable Acts of 1984 and 1992 gave it over traditional video. since those laws did not apply to, or anticipate, OTT. » Read More