Edge Providers, Not ISPs, the Worry in Net Neutrality, Telco Consultant Says
Edge providers routinely engage in behaviors, like discriminating against content and throttling, that they complain are "destroying the Internet" if done by an ISP, telecom consultant Jonathan Lee blogged Wednesday. He said the argument that ISPs want a cable TV-like…
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internet, with access to collections of sites offered like subscriptions to cable channel packages, lacks explanation of how ISPs could offer such a service or profit from it. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's May en banc decision in USTelecom v. FCC (see 1705010038) said ISPs can offer curated service under Communications Act Title II regulation, but no ISP has gone that route, he said.