Peter Pitsch of Intel met with FCC Comr. Martin last week to disc...
Peter Pitsch of Intel met with FCC Comr. Martin last week to discuss the potential benefits of the High Tech Broadband Coalition (HTBS) proposal for reforming the MMDS and ITFS bands and how it might be improved by applying…
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recommendations in FCC Office of Plans & Policy (POPP) Working Paper Number 38. Pitsch, in his oral ex parte presentation to Martin, also suggested that the Commission see wireline broadband as an information service and therefore be subject to only minimal regulation and that they should maintain the requirement of ILECs who provide affiliated ISPs with a broadband transmission service to make the same service available to unaffiliated ISPs on a nondiscriminatory basis. Pitsch also said the HTBS wanted the Commission to permit wireline broadband providers to negotiate privately the terms of new service agreements with ISPs, but that the ILECs should make any such arrangements with their affiliated ISPs available to unaffiliated ISPs on the same terms. The FCC should revisit these requirements in 2 years and any continuing regulation should be imposed in a competitively neutral manner, Pitsch said.