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CTIA Urges Net Neutrality Exemption for Evolving Technologies

CTIA officials, led by President Meredith Baker, urged the FCC to tweak proposed net neutrality rules to exempt network slicing and other evolving services. In a call with staff for FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, CTIA questioned generally the need to…

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impose Communications Act Title II authority as part of the rules. Proposals to “narrow or restrict” non-broadband internet access data services “would deny the benefits of new technology such as network slicing to broadband users, unduly limit wireless innovation, and undermine American leadership in the mobile economy,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 23-320. “Network slicing will allow wireless providers to offer over a single physical network a series of logically defined virtual networks configured to satisfy use cases currently under development that may include, for example, public safety communications, robotic surgery, smart grids, and communications at crowded events,” CTIA said.