The FCC should craft net neutrality rules that...
The FCC should craft net neutrality rules that “encourage investment in abundant bandwidth,” but allowing paid prioritization could “create incentives for providers to maintain scarcity and congestion on their networks, in order to sell services,” Google executives told Commissioner Jessica…
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Rosenworcel and aide David Goldman. Google Fiber’s deployment “suggests that it is both workable and economically desirable to manage a broadband network without prioritization and consistent with open Internet principles,” Google said at the meeting in Mountain View, California, where the company is based, recounted a filing posted Tuesday to docket 14-28 (http://bit.ly/1u1bHY4). Company attendees included Craig Barratt, senior vice president-access and energy. Communications Act Title II is a “flexible, light-touch approach for the preservation of open communications networks,” Free Press said in net neutrality reply comments (http://bit.ly/1ASdX2E). Common-carrier principles are “perfectly suited and absolutely necessary to maintaining nondiscrimination principles and nondiscriminatory outcomes” for all telecom services, “not just those delivered on copper telephone wires,” the group said. The FCC has “tremendous ability to tailor Title II,” and “extraordinary power to forbear not only from its own rules, but even from statutes and congressional acts themselves.” Section 706 “will not work for the protections contemplated,” Free Press said. Some want a Section 706 approach, as other replies to the net neutrality NPRM showed (CD Sept 17 p11).