New America Offers Recommendations to Mitigate Issues With Interconnection Points
The FCC should adopt net neutrality rules that address the full scope of harms of last-mile ISP networks, said New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute in a letter in dockets 10-127 and 14-28. The oversight and measurement regime should be…
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structured to ensure that ISPs don't continue to use interconnection "as a mechanism for extracting tolls and degrading their customers' service," it said. A nationwide measurement endpoint platform with server placements geographically dispersed across major markets and key points of interconnection should be part of the regime, it said. There also should be a focus on measuring the technical indications of congestion levels "in interconnection paths between the end-user and a wide footprint of transit networks," it said.