Open interconnection and a “healthy transit market” for Internet traffic are...
Open interconnection and a “healthy transit market” for Internet traffic are important, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and aides in what agency records show was a rare commission lobbying meeting for the company. Those two factors…
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are “prerequisites to scaling the Internet as a global content distribution platform,” an ex parte filing, released Monday in docket 09-191 (http://bit.ly/1boC0ce), recounted Hastings as saying during the Dec. 18 meeting. Hastings cited the online video distributor’s Open Connect program and explained it to Wheeler and aides including Senior Counselor Phil Verveer, wireline aide Daniel Alvarez and media aide Maria Kirby. Open Connect is a content delivery network that locates Netflix’s content closer to ISPs, said a blog post that the ex parte filing referenced (http://nflx.it/1c3FPHa). Netflix last lobbied the FCC in an ex parte meeting 13 months ago, according to agency records (http://bit.ly/19e0bNM). A company spokesman declined to comment further.