The issue focused on NFL websites that served only internet sites with domains associated with Internet networks and ISPs. But those websites didn't offer broadband Internet service for smartphones or tablets. They included servers connected to PCs running Windows PCs, laptops running computers running Linux operating systems, mobile phones running iPhones running iPads running iOS devices. (Windows Phone apps used desktop PCs.) "They really couldn't serve websites without browsers," Smolen says.

Smolen points out that technology companies don't simply charge websites fees—they give websites