IP Carrier

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Some people might be shocked to learn that AT&T complies with existing Federal Communications Commission rules. Some people might be shocked to learn that AT&T actually already agrees that "best effort" Internet services ought to treat every packet the same as every other.

"We use the principle of ‘us on us," says AT&T CTO John Donovan. "If we take an external developer and ourselves, we should not be advantaged in how long it takes or how much expertise is required."

"I don’t think it needs to be that complicated," he says. Does any application run by any third party work as well on the network as an AT&T-provided application?

"Outside applications need to be on an equal footing with our own applications," Donovan says.