Sounds like it goes in the right direction. So why isn't this being applied to whatsapp? Are they not considered a carrier?
Wording it a bit weird, though. "interconnect their networks with one another"? If whatsapp made their client authenticate with their services so that their servers only work with their client and vice versa, would waiting for requests from would-be competitors to give them special access be sufficient to comply?
I wish a law would force the use of an open protocol for all services. Let anyone make their client, and let those clients connect to any server.
Those regulations applied to "telecommunications services" like DSL, not "information services" like WhatsApp. Also, the FCC basically stopped applying them even to basic infrastructure more than a decade ago.
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Sounds like it goes in the right direction. So why isn't this being applied to whatsapp? Are they not considered a carrier?
Wording it a bit weird, though. "interconnect their networks with one another"? If whatsapp made their client authenticate with their services so that their servers only work with their client and vice versa, would waiting for requests from would-be competitors to give them special access be sufficient to comply?
I wish a law would force the use of an open protocol for all services. Let anyone make their client, and let those clients connect to any server.
Those regulations applied to "telecommunications services" like DSL, not "information services" like WhatsApp. Also, the FCC basically stopped applying them even to basic infrastructure more than a decade ago.