Would there be separate obligations for companies that operate noninterconnected VoIP (such as AIM Voice chat, Skype, etc.)?
Commissioner Copps take on net neutrality is interesting becuase he probably could be credited as the “father” of the grass roots net neutrality movement. He is the one that shrewdly politically linked net neutrality and media consolidation as two sides of the same political coin — meaning both were about keeping big companies from controlling both distribution and content. In his CNET interview, he says that net nuetrality and media consolidation are “about the same thing.” “It’s all about control — can you control both the distribution and the content. And when you do that, it is of course a clasic recipe for monopoly.” With all due respect to Commissioner Copps, I have to challenge that his monoploization thesis does not square with the facts. The Internet and convergence have inalterably shifted competition from the intra-modal “silo” competition that occurred before to the inter-modal, cross-technology competitive free-for-all of today. Any definition of monopolization focuses o
