Voice Roaming Order No Model for Broadband Reclassification, Mobile Future Argues
Mobile Future said the 2007 FCC voice roaming order can in no way be a model for reclassifying broadband as a common carrier service. That analogy misses big differences between automatic voice roaming and broadband Internet access, it said in…
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a filing Friday: “Most importantly, to the extent there is a market for automatic voice roaming, it is a wholesale market involving a discrete set of participants -- namely, mobile wireless voice carriers. In contrast, the broadband Internet access market is a retail market, involving literally hundreds of millions of relationships -- all of which would be dramatically altered by the reclassification of broadband Internet service.” Broadband reclassification “could require a greater degree of forbearance than was required in the voice roaming context -- or, alternatively, could result in a far heavier regulatory burden,” the group said in docket 14-28.