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Consumer Groups Push for Net Neutrality Rules

Grant Gross writes on InfoWorld:

Three consumer groups repeated their calls for a U.S. law to prevent broadband providers from blocking or slowing customer access to some Internet content by saying the public wants government protection.

In a survey released Wednesday, more than two-thirds of respondents said the large telecommunications and cable companies offering broadband services should adhere to so-called network neutrality principles, which would guarantee that broadband users can go to any legal Web sites they want and run any Internet applications they want.

Without strong consumer protections, the openly accessible Internet is in danger with few broadband provider options available to most people, the consumer groups said.

posted by Fergie @ 1/18/2006 12:25:00 PM