Reports in the Italian press say that the country’s media regulator, Agcom, is on the verge of mandating that OTT streaming platforms begin measuring and reporting the quality of the service they provide. This is the beginning of what looks like a messy dispute between the streaming platforms and the ISPs that have to deliver that traffic to customers. This is the ISPs’ collective attempt to avoid the ire of their broadband customers. The proposed rule would ‘prove’ that an outage was the fault of the OTT service, and not the ISP, and therefore let the ISP off the hook – with the OTT service then forced to refund its customers some $8.50 (€7.50) per week that the QoS has…