
The rates the telco offers to third parties are “as low as the market-based rates AT&T currently offers even to wireless resellers who commit to significant purchase volumes,” the AT&T exec wrote. In fact, Quinn claimed, AT&T has gone beyond the nondiscrimination requirements traditional law would require by allowing content providers to specify how much data they want to sponsor and charging them “the same low per-gigabyte rate regardless whether they are big or small or how much data they purchase.” AT&T makes its sponsored-data program available to all content providers on the same terms and conditions as it does for DirecTV, he maintained. Meanwhile, the FCC’s leadership is set to change with Donald Trump moving into the White House next year. On Monday, the president-elect designated two members of his transition team to focus on the FCC - economists Jeff Eisenach and Mark Jamison - both of whom are strongly opposed to the FCC’s network neutrality rules, adopted under the Obama administration.

The two are considered to be candidates for chairman of the FCC to replace Obama appointee Tom Wheeler.We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Streaming services are a common presence in households everywhere, whether you have cable or not, meaning data use is, too.
