AT&T Calls Its Peering Policy 'More Generous Than Some'
AT&T's peering policy with ISPs and Internet backbone providers "is typical of those in the industry (and more generous than some)," the company said in a filing posted Monday in docket 15-149 as part of a response to Media Bureau…
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document requests (see 1510130063) for data in the review of Charter Communications buying Bright House Networks and Time Warner Cable. AT&T said its policy broadly is to allow "a peer to transmit up to two times more traffic ... than it receives from AT&T." Third parties also can interconnect with AT&T's network via Managed Internet Service and the Content Interconnection Platform, it said. The heavily redacted filing also gave some details on AT&T's data cap policy -- offering 150 GB/month service to DSL customers, and charging $10 for every 50 GB used beyond that; and through its U-verse high-speed Internet providing 250 GB/month as the lowest-priced data plan option, with that allowance increasing with higher-speed plans -- and gave no indication of any intention to change those policies.