International Trade Today is a Warren News publication.

Network Usage Fees 'Not Appropriate' for Net Neutrality Proceeding: CCIA

The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) urged the FCC to forego considering the issue of network usage fees in its net neutrality proceeding. Don't consider the "mandatory-payments issue" the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association suggested, CCIA said in a…

Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article

If your job depends on informed compliance, you need International Trade Today. Delivered every business day and available any time online, only International Trade Today helps you stay current on the increasingly complex international trade regulatory environment.

letter posted Wednesday in docket 2-320 (see 2401180042). The proceeding is "an inappropriate forum for that discussion." ETNO’s push for fees is "evidentiary support that network owners are well aware of their singular access to Internet users and are prepared to leverage that access into financial gain," CCIA said.