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Reclassification Would Cause 'Significant Harm' to Smaller Providers, ACA Says

Reclassifying small- and medium-sized cable companies under Title II in the FCC’s draft net neutrality order (see 1502040055) will “cause significant harm” to the broadband providers, ACA President Matthew Polka wrote in a blog post Monday. The organization continued to…

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ask the agency to exclude smaller providers from the order. Reclassification would “impose unwarranted and onerous burdens on smaller ISPs, increasing their costs of doing business, increasing their customers' cost of receiving service, and inhibiting their ability to finance and deploy broadband,” Polka wrote. The agency told us it “carefully considered the needs of small business,” and it’s “another good reason that we’re applying a light-touch, Title II approach.”