FCC and Net Neutrality

Creating new net neutrality rules, as allowed by the recent court decision,

would allow “commercially reasonable” paid deals. Thus, rich companies

could pay money to Internet providers to ensure that their high-bandwidth

traffic would arrive at high speed. The concern is big-name companies

would pay large sums of money for priority status to secure a position of

dominance by ensuring that they have more high-bandwidth. The smaller

competitors would be left out due to cost and not providing the high-

bandwidth performance to their customers. Startups could not compete and

would not find investors willing to take on the risk. The FCC must protect

the smaller fish from the big ones

In his career FCC chair Tom Wheeler has led both the cable and wireless

trade associations. I would hope that the wolf is not watching sheep.