Comm Daily® Notebook

摘要

This week’s net neutrality court decision is an “an open invitation to the FCC to clarify the importancernof telecommunications networks to future economic growth and opportunity for all Americans,” saidrnComputer & Communications Industry Association Vice President-Government Relations Cathy Sloan,writing in an op-ed for The Hill (http://bit.ly/1mczUoD). She said broadband access is now “the equivalentrnof basic telephone service for most Americans” when discussing the context of the case, which restsrnon the FCC classifying broadband as an information service rather than a Title II telecom service. Thernagency has kept regulations to a minimum where there’s sufficient competition, she said. “Where choicesrnare few and market failure occurs, end users will look to the FCC for some basic protections that are onlyrnpossible if the agency restores its own dormant statutory authority over access to critical underlying telecommunicationsrnnetworks,” Sloan said. “Otherwise Internet access providers will be free to block andrndiscriminate at will, prioritizing only those information services that are both willing and able to pay forrnspecial connectivity.”