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Net Neutrality Advocate Disputes CTIA on 5G Slicing

Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, met with aides to the FCC’s Democratic commissioners to counter CTIA arguments about the treatment of 5G slicing under draft net neutrality rules (see 2404170032), said a filing…

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posted Monday in docket 23-320. “In recent filings, CTIA suggests that language [suggesting] that alleged non-BIAS data services that offer quality of service to applications, content, and services whose quality of service requirements can be met over [broadband internet access service] consistent with open internet protections would likely be found to evade the Open Internet protections is ‘a dramatic shift from the 2015 framework,’” van Schewick said: “I disagree with that characterization. As the draft order recognizes, the 2015 Order clearly stated multiple times that it would ‘take appropriate enforcement action’ if an alleged non-BIAS data service was found to evade the Open Internet protections.” She noted that her name was spelled “Shewick” several times in the draft and asked that it be corrected.