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Scott Jordan Department of Computer Science University of California, Irvine Challenges to communications regulation posed by technology convergence

The big regulatory challenge: convergence Telephone network Cell phone networks Internet Everything-Over-IP Internet Cable tv networks 2

Open vs. closed models Telephone network Cell phone networks Title II Title II / III Internet Everything-Over-IP Internet Title II Cable tv networks Title VI 3

Device attachment Telephone network Cell phone networks Carterfone Open Internet Internet Everything-Over-IP Internet Open Internet Cable tv networks CableCard 4

Universal service Telephone network Cell phone networks USF USF (mobility) Internet Everything-Over-IP Internet USF Cable tv networks (broadband) (cross- subsidies) 5

Challenge: Where does the Title II service begin? Netflix backend Level3 Peering Peering IXP IXP CDN CDN Comcast 6

Challenge: Using one service to protect another $/month average protect incumbent video service price per GB profit-maximizing cap heavy-user cap base plan price GB/month data cap 7

Challenge: What services fall under which Title? WiFi WiFi STB capacity for MVPD services capacity for BIAS OTT video Cable video Live / On- (Netflix, Hulu) over IP Recorded Demand MVPD partitions capacity for cable services between live and on-demand video app website MVPD may claim cable video over IP does not use BIAS capacity, and is thus not counted against data cap 8

Challenge: Application-specific treatment  Modification of content  Video transcoding  Web caching  Image compression  Throttling based on class of application  video streaming  video downloads  music streaming  gaming  tethering  application-based capacity allocation  Zero rating 9