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The Federal Communications Commission has reached a preliminary conclusion that AT&T is violating net neutrality rules by using data cap exemptions to favor DirecTV video on its mobile network.
The FCC yesterday also expressed concerns to Verizon about that carrier’s similar data cap exemption policies, but the examination of Verizon is in a slightly earlier stage.
The FCC first raised the issue with AT&T a few weeks ago, and AT&T defended its practices in a response. But rather than satisfying the commission’s concerns, AT&T’s response “tends to confirm our initial view that the Sponsored Data program strongly favors AT&T’s own video offerings while unreasonably discriminating against unaffiliated edge providers and limiting their ability to offer competing video services to AT&T’s broadband subscribers on a level playing field,” said a letter to AT&T yesterday from Jon Wilkins, chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.
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Source: Ars Technica – FCC says AT&T is violating net neutrality with DirecTV data cap exemption