Verizon to FCC: Don't Add Middle Mile Disclosure

Verizon sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission saying that the FCC's current transparency rules covering how Internet service providers manage their networks strike the "right balance," and the FCC doesn't need to make them more "complex" by adding middle-mile interconnection congestion to the disclosures. Verizon outlined in the letter its desire for the FCC to confine disclosure requirements to last-mile networks, not the exchange of traffic in the middle mile. Verizon said congestion in the middle mile can result from deliberate choices by various parts of that ecosystem, including edge providers like Netflix.