A federal investigation of the Comcast-Level 3 dispute is necessary, the...
A federal investigation of the Comcast-Level 3 dispute is necessary, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative, the Media Access Project and Free Press said in a letter to DOJ’s Antitrust Division and the FCC. Peering agreements are rarely transparent…
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and an investigation is needed to reveal how peering agreements are negotiated and whether companies are acting anticompetitively, the letter said. The dispute raises three main concerns, the letter said: Whether and how last-mile providers might leverage their relationship with broadband consumers to act anticompetitively; whether last-mile providers can “leverage their market power to harm their competitors” in the market for Internet content, particularly in the light of the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger; and how disputes could lead to disruptive outages.