8th October 2009
Few Takers for FCC’s Net Neutrality Legislative Suggestions
ISPs in the
The FCC has recommended the formalisation of half a dozen net neutrality rules, intended to prevent operators from regulating content and controlling prices of services.
Though it appears to be a brilliant move by the FCC to limit the hold of the ISPs, the latter group does not support it. The executive vice president of broadband for Comcast, David L. Cohen, stated that the ongoing debate on net neutrality for years has had no effect on the exponential growth of the internet. Cohen believes that such rules are unsolicited and are in fact a solution in search of a problem.
Dylan F. Tweney of Wired thinks that such rules will cause inconvenience to users and limit their internet access. He states that with the difficulty in managing their networks owing to the new rules, broadband providers could be forced to give up flat rate access for bandwidth caps.
While such unpopularity and disagreement are doing the rounds, it is difficult to sympathise with the American ISPs, who have a monopoly in the market, unlike the scenario in the
