ACA: IP Nets Need Interconnection Mandates, Too

The American Cable Association says the Federal Communications Commission needs to apply interconnection mandates to IP networks, just as it does to traditional switched phone services.

AT&T has asked the FCC to deregulate phone traffic as networks transition to all-IP service. ACA falls on the other end of the continuum from Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, which backs removing the regulations, and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, which argues for marketplace negotiations for exchange of traffic, but with the FCC insuring those are fair deals.