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Broadband Providers to FCC: Don?t ‘Deem and Pass’ - Big Government
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Broadband Providers to FCC: Don?t ‘Deem and Pass’ - Big Government
Who cares if the people support of don't support our policy? We've got an internet to control!!!!!
Last week, three major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and five industry trade associations sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski urging him to ditch what has come to be known in some tech policy circles as the FCCs own version of deem and passthe infamous process that first reared its head in the context of Congress passing Obamacare earlier this year.
Following a recent, unfavorable Appeals Court decision, observers say Genachowski has been eagerly pursuing a back-door, out-of-sight pathway to achieving a long-time, personal objective: Regulation of the Internet via the institution of so-called Net Neutrality rules. Reclassifying Internet services as telecommunications services would enable him to do just thatthough with increased public opposition to Net Neutrality having been voiced during an FCC public comment period that recently closed, and recent polling showing relatively weak support for the policy, it remains a risky option both from a public relations, and political standpoint.
The letter, signed by AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and the trade groups both focuses attention on what Genachowski is alleged to be planning, and seeks to debunk some of the talking points being used by supporters of the proposed reclassification. Chief among those is the argument that the current arrangement, whereby Internet services are not classified as telecommunications services, is the specific result of a policy instituted under the Bush administration, as opposed to a standard that has existed for what one tech policy expert with whom Capitol Confidential spoke called time immemorial. Per the letter, the commission has never classified any kind of Internet access service (wireline, cable, wireless, powerline, dial-up or otherwise) as a telecommunications service, nor has it ever regulated the rates, terms and conditions of that service Internet access service has always been treated as a Title I information service.
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Broadband Providers to FCC: Don?t ‘Deem and Pass’ - Big Government
Who cares if the people support of don't support our policy? We've got an internet to control!!!!!