Now to today's announcement by the current President. He is apparently supporting the FCC taking the position of supporting Common Carriage. He stated:
.....said that new rules under consideration by the F.C.C. should adhere to several key principles: No website or service should be blocked by an Internet service provider; no content should be purposefully slowed down or sped up; there should be more transparency about where traffic is routed; and no paid deals should be made to provide a speed advantage to some providers over others in delivering content.
Of course the monopolistic cable and telco companies replied:
“Imposing antiquated common carrier regulation, or Title II, on the vibrant mobile wireless ecosystem would be a gross overreaction,” said Meredith Attwell Baker, president and chief executive of the trade association and a former Republican commissioner for the F.C.C.
As we had written a few years back regarding Internet Neutrality :
Internet Neutrality is a term which means many things to many people. In this paper we look at the Internet from a technical, legal, and economic perspective. We look at the ways the various players are trying to position their view and we attempt to apply the factual elements of what actually exists as a set of tests and tools to analyze the options. We as a result of this detailed analysis have come up with a set of conclusion and principles which re -interpret the concepts of Internet neutrality and present a set of principles which are based on the technological facts, the market realities, and legal precedents which go back more than a thousand years. Our concern is that some of the proposal are so self-serving that if accepted of if implemented will do irreparable harm to what has been created in the Internet.
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