Officials from the New America Foundation’s Open Technology...
Officials from the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute urged the FCC to reclassify broadband as a Title II service, in a meeting with FCC General Counsel Jonathan Sallet, said a filing posted by the FCC Tuesday. A “bounded, narrow…
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approach under Title II would offer greater certainty and clarity for all stakeholders, and provides the soundest legal basis for strong open Internet protections,” said the filing (http://bit.ly/1AbuRL1) in docket 14-28. OTI also noted the international implications for U.S. publishers and edge providers if the FCC doesn’t clamp down on paid prioritization. “If the US codifies paid prioritization, almost certainly near-monopoly last-mile providers in other countries will quickly seek to extract additional fees from US companies,” the group said.