[Infowarrior] - Telecom War on Net Neutrality

[Richard Forno]

Telecom War on Net Neutrality
Topics: corporations | internet | lobbying | U.S. Congress
Source: Enterprise Networking Planet, February 15, 2008

"Telecommunications industry groups have attacked a new bill calling for
government regulators to take a closer look at how broadband providers
manage their networks," reports Kenneth Corin. "The Internet Freedom
Preservation Act, introduced earlier this week by Rep. Ed Markey, the
Democratic chairman of the House subcommittee on telecommunication and the
Internet, could make it illegal for service providers to block or degrade
traffic on their networks. Its introduction revisits the contentious debate
over Net neutrality, which has industry groups championing the free market
and warning that government intervention threatens to choke off growth and
innovation in the Internet economy." (As an example of the kind of
"innovation" they have in mind, PC World magazine warned recently that
consumers should "get ready for a crackdown on broadband use" in which
"Internet users may soon be charged extra for using 'too much' bandwidth or
cut off from using some bandwidth-hungry software applications.")


http://www.prwatch.org/node/7023