Considerations Around Wireless Net Neutrality: The Few Vs. the Many

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski laid out his priorities for the wireless industry at the CTIA IT event last Wednesday. He wants to:

* Bring more spectrum to market to handle rapidly increasing demand for wireless data
* Remove red tape to allow wireless carriers to expand networks faster
* Conduct the regulatory process at the FCC more openly and on a fact-based, data-driven basis
* Codify and enforce net neutrality with special considerations to wireless

I am sure the wireless industry is welcoming the first three priorities of the new Chairman. They represent a welcome and overdue recognition of the situation we are in – more than 270 million American wireless subscribers and more than 42 million of them using smartphones to access the Internet. While the discussion continues about the need for the codification of net neutrality for wireless, it is very encouraging that Chairman Genachowski has recognized that wireless networks deserve special consideration.

Source: Nielsen Wire

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+ FCC to Propose ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules

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