FSF and Verizon Oppose Net Neutrality Rules for Slicing
The FCC continues getting pressure to provide an exemption for 5G network slicing under proposed net neutrality rules, expected to be unveiled this week (see 2403290057). “The debate surrounding ‘network slicing’ is welcome because it rather convincingly demonstrates the inherently…
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problematic nature of the proposal to impose public utility regulation on Internet service providers in a technologically dynamic marketplace,” Free State Foundation said in a comment Tuesday. Slicing will “help enable more efficient use of wireless networks, while also enabling capabilities and services that will support investment to deploy and add capacity to next-generation wireless networks,” Verizon said in a filing posted Tuesday in docket 23-320: “Placing unnecessary restrictions on this technology could stifle it in its infancy, to the detriment of consumers and our nation’s leadership position in the mobile economy.” Verizon representatives spoke with aides to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks.