AT&T appears willing to play ball with FCC to land DirectTV [telecom]

AT&T appears ready to play ball with the FCC to land DirecTV

by William Pelegrin

At this point, AT&T's $48.5 billion purchase of DirecTV appears to be all but guaranteed. However, if the FCC is going to approve the industry-changing purchase, AT&T will have to abide by new net neutrality regulations.

According to sources at The Washington Post, AT&T is ready to concede major aspects of the new net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) put forth earlier this year, the same rules that AT&T has strongly opposed publicly. In order for the deal to go through, AT&T will have to abide by three major mandates:

  1. Do not slow websites down.
  2. Do not prevent people from accessing competing websites.
  3. Do not take any payment from website operators in the hopes that they can speed up their content, thus creating an Internet "fast lane."

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