The FCC late Monday filed its defense against the Verizon-led challenge...
The FCC late Monday filed its defense against the Verizon-led challenge of its net neutrality rules with the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. “Openness has been essential to the Internet’s extraordinary success,” the FCC asserts in the pleading…
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(http://xrl.us/bno8qa). “By keeping barriers to entry low, openness enables anyone -- from large corporations, to start-up companies, to college students -- to create innovative applications.” Prior to the approval of net neutrality rules in December 2010, “there were significant threats to openness, and thus to the engine that has driven investment in broadband facilities,” the agency said. “The Commission responded to these threats by adopting modest, high-level rules -- in large measure continuations of longstanding, bipartisan FCC policies -- that preserve Internet openness and its concomitant incentives for innovation and investment. ... These sensible rules of the road fulfill specific statutory directives to advance broadband investment and to ensure that wireless licensees act in the public interest.” “Internet freedom is essential for U.S. innovation and economic leadership,” Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a statement. “As we predicted, since the FCC’s adoption of Internet freedom protections ... which increased certainty and strengthened incentives to innovate and invest, we've seen significant increases in innovation and investment in Internet applications and services as well as in broadband networks."