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“AT&T has long supported the principle of an open Internet and has conducted its business accordingly,” Jim Cicconi, AT&T’s senior vice president of external and legislative affairs, said in a statement. “We were also early supporters of the FCC’s current four broadband principles and their case-by-case application to wired networks.”
But Cicconi went on to say that the principles and new legislation should not apply to the wireless market.
“We are concerned, however, that the FCC appears ready to extend the entire array of Net neutrality requirements to what is perhaps the most competitive consumer market in America: wireless services,” he said.
He argues that wireless networks differ from wireline broadband networks because bandwidth is more limited on a wireless network. And he said that imposing new rules on how carriers operate their wireless networks would stifle investment.
It’s like they keep trying to find reasons for me to hate them.