Sunday, May 8, 2011

"The new rules are, at best, net semi-neutrality. They ban any outright blocking and any unreasonable discrimination  of Web sites or applications by fixed-line broadband providers, but they afford more wiggle room to wireless providers like AT&T and Verizon. They require all providers to disclose what steps they take to manage their networks. In a philosophical break would allow a company to pay for faster transmission of data."

"The F.C.C.'s new approach won widespread acceptance among some Internet providers, developers and venture capital firms , but a wide swath of public interest groups have lambasted the proposal as fake net neutrality and said it was rife with loopholes."

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