Carl Brooks

The channel economy for cloud services is rapidly becoming the major avenue for cloud consumption. Every major cloud infrastructure provider now has a channel delivery ecosystem and multiple moving parts. It's critical to understand how these programs work and how the rise of channel will shape the new digital economy.

With the public furor dampened for now, and the House unlikely to hold a vote on a measure from the Senate that would make President Obama's 2015 FCC cable broadband regulations the law, it's worth taking a look at the actual impact of those regulations. The regulations were supposed to address net neutrality – this is the idea that all internet traffic should be treated equally no matter what the data is, instead of ISPs being able to charge higher rates for delivering more in-demand data.

The answer to the question of what happens now is, essentially, nothing. Nothing will change, and current trends in broadband and internet consumption will continue to evolve just as they have for about a decade or more. The reason for this is primarily that the Obama-era (Title II classification for broadband) regulations never went into effect in the first place. So Ajit Pai undid a rule that had never reached its working state.