USTelecom slammed Free Press in a Friday blog...
USTelecom slammed Free Press in a Friday blog post for its arguments in favor of reclassifying broadband as a Title II service. Reclassification “would create unambiguously negative pressures on broadband provider investment that would not exist absent reclassification,” wrote Patrick…
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Brogan, USTelecom industry analyst (http://bit.ly/1nX9zbp). Imposing common carrier regulation on broadband “seems unnecessarily risky and potentially counterproductive for policy goals dependent on more investment, such as expanding deployment to all parts of the country and enhancing U.S. global competitiveness,” he wrote. “The post is full of mischaracterizations, and it still doesn’t hang together,” Free Press fired back in an email. “Getting the Facts Wrong might be a better title for it.” Free Press isn’t interested just in the “investment choices” of a few telcos, the group said. Internet freedom is good for the entire economy. “Avoiding common carriage principles and giving ISPs the green light to discriminate certainly is not going to promote investment by anyone —- neither the edge companies, nor the network providers who'd be able to profit from artificial scarcity in a world of access tolls,” Free Press said.