AT&T Misleads FCC about 'Paid Prioritization' on the Internet
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: August 31, 2010 Contact: Jenn Ettinger, 202-265-1490 x 35
WASHINGTON - AT&T has filed a confusing and misleading letter with the FCC in an attempt to justify charging content companies for priority access to its Internet subscribers. In the letter, AT&T conflates "paid prioritization" - the anti-consumer practice of speeding up and slowing down Internet traffic according to which service provider pays more - with far more accepted business network management practices. Free Press and other Net Neutrality proponents oppose discriminatory "paid prioritization," not these other arrangements.
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Re: Preserving the Open Internet, GN Docket No. 09-191; Framework for Broadband Internet Service, GN Docket No. 10-127 Robert W. Quinn, Jr. AT&T