AT&T Nixes Net Neutrality Proposal
Ted Hearn writes on Multichannel News:
A senior AT&T executive rejected a proposal that would require the company to adhere to Internet-nondiscrimination rules in order to gain approval from the Federal Communications Commission to merge with BellSouth.More here.
The Internet-regulation proposal -- advanced by a coalition funded by Google, Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon.com -- would require AT&T to promise not to discriminate “in their carriage and treatment of Internet traffic based on the source, destination or ownership of such traffic.”
The net-neutrality condition would apply to AT&T, but to no other provider of broadband Internet access in the United States.
“The proper place to be debating the pros and cons of net neutrality is in the U.S. Congress or in an industrywide proceeding at the FCC,” AT&T senior executive vice president Jim Cicconi said in a prepared statement.
posted by Fergie @ 10/31/2006 03:16:00 PM
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