AT&T shareholders voted down a wireless net neutrality measure at...
AT&T shareholders voted down a wireless net neutrality measure at the company’s annual investor meeting Friday. The measure asks the carrier to commit to operating its wireless network without the ability to privilege, degrade or prioritize any traffic. Service providers…
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are generally against the principle. AT&T’s vote came after the SEC asked wireless carriers to let shareholders vote on net neutrality. Similar proposals related to net neutrality are scheduled for votes at Verizon Communications’ annual meeting May 3 and Sprint Nextel’s meeting on May 15. A proposal asking AT&T to issue a semi-annual report on political contributions and the policies and procedures for making such contributions was defeated by a vote of 61.4 percent against to 38.6 percent in favor, AT&T said. Another proposal asking that AT&T adopt a policy that the chairman of the board be an independent director was also defeated by a vote of 56.2 percent against to 43.8 percent in favor.