FCC Never Identified Harms To Be Fixed by Net Neutrality Rules, CTIA Says
CTIA questioned whether the FCC identified any real problems that the agency needed addressed before adopting its Feb. 26 net neutrality rules. A blog post Friday by Scott Bergmann, vice president-regulatory affairs, was the fourth in a series by the…
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association last week, making its case against the rules. “The nominal instances cited as alleged attacks on an open Internet do not reflect a pattern of behavior or any systemic issue resulting in any harm to mobile consumers,” Bergmann wrote. “In fact, the proffered examples were few and far between and quickly remedied by the consumer-driven marketplace.” The FCC order acknowledges the rapid increases in mobile speeds and data traffic and the more than 140 million people who subscribed to LTE service in 2014, he said. “Without a hint of irony, the FCC then proceeds to abandon its prior framework under which mobile broadband blossomed.”