Entire broadband industry seeks immediate halt to Title II classification Warning: Be careful when reading this item -- oozing greed like this can kill!
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/01/entire-broadband-industry-seeks-immediate-halt-to-title-ii-classification/ The broadband providers are trying to make their request more palatable by asking only for a partial stay while leaving in place net neutrality rules that forbid blocking or discrimination against traffic. However, the FCC had to reclassify the providers in order to impose those rules because of a ruling on a previous lawsuit filed by Verizon. One reason the providers fear common carrier status is that it will make it more difficult to charge network operators and content providers for direct connections to their networks. Just today, Verizon agreed to provide free peering to Cogent rather than risk a complaint to the FCC ... The common carrier reclassification, which is scheduled to take effect June 12, would also let home Internet customers complain about unjust and unreasonable charges. Broadband providers oppose this as well. - - - "Broadband providers demand the right to keep charging unjust and unreasonable fees!" -- Yeah, got it, boys. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
