Taco Cowboy writes:
The net neutrality issue has become a very hot topic recently, but curiously on the mobile scene, the net neutrality rules were absent
Why ?
Simply because the wireless companies have successfully convinced regulators four years ago to keep mobile networks mostly free of net neutrality rules
Now that Federal Communications Commission officials are looking into whether wireless networks should remain exempt from net neutrality rules the mobile carriers have lobbied hard to foil FCC's latest attempt
“Wireless is different it is dependent on finite spectrum,” Meredith Attwell Baker, the new head of CTIA, the wireless industry’s lobbying arm, told reporters Tuesday
Baker previously served as the top lobbyist for Comcast’s NBCUniversal division, joining the company after serving as an FCC commissioner
On the other side of the spectrum, net neutrality advocates are hoping to convince regulators to include wireless networks more fully under any new proposed rules. They are pushing for the FCC to re-regulate broadband Internet under a section of the law (called Title II), which was written with old phone networks in mind
The FCC will be taking public comments about what it should do about new net neutrality rules through the end of July