The feedback is in on the Federal Communications Commission's proposed "third way" net neutrality proposal, and few stakeholders are willing to give any ground in the matter. The cable companies, telcos, and their allies insist that the idea will kill investment. On the other side of the fence, online content providers say that without common carrier style protections, the ISPs will pick and choose winners and losers on the 'Net.
Reclassification of ISPs as common carriers would "cram today's broadband Internet access providers into an ill-fitting 20th century regulatory silo," warns AT&T, and would "present risks and harms that dwarf any putative benefits, and would all but scuttle the Administration's ambitious broadband agenda." The agency's National Broadband Plan calls for policies that encourage billions more in private sector investment in ISP networks.
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