{"id":16856,"date":"2017-06-28T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16856"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:49:12","slug":"more-than-40-isps-across-the-country-tell-chairman-pai-to-not-repeal-network-neutrality-and-maintain-title-ii-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16856","title":{"rendered":"More than 40 ISPs Across the Country Tell Chairman Pai to Not Repeal Network Neutrality and Maintain Title II Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2015 Order famously outlined clear net neutrality rules. But those rules only passed muster because the Order also explicitly classified broadband service as a “common carrier” service, regulated by Title II of the Communications Act, rather than an “information service” regulated by Title I of the same Act. And that classification has several corollary effects, because Title II isn’t just about net neutrality. It is also meant to curtail the anti-competitive conduct from incumbent monopolists like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon. In essence, as common carriers, they are not able to use their power to control the Internet experience<\/strong>, and they are not able to directly harm their competitors in the broadband market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: More than 40 ISPs Across the Country Tell Chairman Pai to Not Repeal Network Neutrality and Maintain Title II Enforcement | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Google Fiber’s deployment ran into snags in Austin, Texas when those poles were owned by AT&T<\/a>, because the surest way to prevent competition is to just physically prevent their entry into your market. If a company the size of Google could be stifled without the law supporting them, what hope does a smaller ISP have<\/strong> in entering into a market where the incumbent broadband provider owns the poles that are a necessary component to deploying the network? The FCC Chairman’s plan fundamentally ignores this problem and offers no clear solution to competitors. An incumbent broadband provider that owns a lot of the poles is going to have no federal legal obligation to share that access at fair market rates if broadband is no longer a common carrier service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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