Comcast complains it will make less money under Calif. net neutrality law

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California’s net neutrality law will cause “significant lost revenues” for Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company said in a court filing this month.

Comcast described the net neutrality law’s potential impact on its ability to charge online service providers and network operators for network interconnection.

“The paid interconnection provisions will harm Comcast’s ability to enter into new, mutually beneficial interconnection agreements with edge providers that involve consideration, leading to a loss of existing and prospective interconnection partners and significant lost revenues,” Comcast Senior VP Ken Klaer wrote in the filing in US District Court for the Eastern District of California. (“Edge provider” is the industry term for websites and other online platforms, such as Netflix and Google.)

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