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1st September 2010, 03:21 PM
FCC reacts to Google/Verizon deal with decisive action more questions
By Nate Anderson | Last updated about an hour ago
The FCC's plan for network neutrality—ideas which Chairman Julius Genachowski JEW made central to his tenure, and which were backed by President Obama—has been under direct assault for the last month. Verizon and Google told the FCC that the agency should largely butt out of overseeing network management, leaving it almost entirely up to industry, and that almost no rules could be applied to wireless networks. In addition, "managed services" delivered over the same broadband pipe would be exempted. AT&T recently told the Commission that it has been engaged in paid traffic prioritization for years, and that the FCC had no right to limit such behavior. Private companies including AT&T, Microsoft, and Verizon have been meeting quietly for the last month to hash out their own, much more limited ideas about nondiscrimination.
In the face of this coordinated assault, Genachowski has continued his quiet, "data-driven" ways. Today, as the FCC finally reacted to the Verizon/Google proposal, it demanded... even more data.
Filings on this issue have been interminable, and they've been made for years, but the FCC wants yet more information about two key parts of the Verizon/Google proposal: managed services and wireless networks. In today's "further inquiry," the Commission noted three main ways that managed services could harm the open Internet. All of these concerns are exacerbated by limited competition in the US broadband market, says the agency.
The rest.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/fcc-reacts-to-googleverizon-deal-with-decisive-action-more-questions.ars
By Nate Anderson | Last updated about an hour ago
The FCC's plan for network neutrality—ideas which Chairman Julius Genachowski JEW made central to his tenure, and which were backed by President Obama—has been under direct assault for the last month. Verizon and Google told the FCC that the agency should largely butt out of overseeing network management, leaving it almost entirely up to industry, and that almost no rules could be applied to wireless networks. In addition, "managed services" delivered over the same broadband pipe would be exempted. AT&T recently told the Commission that it has been engaged in paid traffic prioritization for years, and that the FCC had no right to limit such behavior. Private companies including AT&T, Microsoft, and Verizon have been meeting quietly for the last month to hash out their own, much more limited ideas about nondiscrimination.
In the face of this coordinated assault, Genachowski has continued his quiet, "data-driven" ways. Today, as the FCC finally reacted to the Verizon/Google proposal, it demanded... even more data.
Filings on this issue have been interminable, and they've been made for years, but the FCC wants yet more information about two key parts of the Verizon/Google proposal: managed services and wireless networks. In today's "further inquiry," the Commission noted three main ways that managed services could harm the open Internet. All of these concerns are exacerbated by limited competition in the US broadband market, says the agency.
The rest.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/fcc-reacts-to-googleverizon-deal-with-decisive-action-more-questions.ars