Verizon Extols Benefits of Slicing in Meeting With Carr Aides
Verizon representatives met with aides to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on net neutrality rules and network slicing. A draft order appeared to look for middle ground on how slicing would be treated under the rules (see 2404050053). “Network slicing is…
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a promising technology that will help drive exciting network innovation and enable new capabilities and services for the benefit of consumers in ways that previously were only possible over wireline networks,” said a filing Friday in docket 23-320. The technology 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. Meanwhile, Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, blogged Thursday that the proposed rules on slicing could create “a huge problem” and make it possible for providers “to start picking applications and putting them in a fast lane.” Major wireless carriers are "testing ways to create … 5G fast lanes for apps such as video conferencing, games, and video where the ISP chooses and controls what gets boosted,” she said: “The FCC’s draft order opens the door … so long as the app provider isn’t charged for them.... These kinds of ISP-controlled fast lanes violate core net neutrality principles and would limit user choice, distort competition, hamper startups, and help cement platform dominance."