Consumer Federation of America Cautions Regulators Against Undermining 'Next Generation' of the Internet

The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) today presented a new framework for evaluating the importance of open communications networks to the success of the Internet. Federal Communications Commission proposals to abandon the requirement that advanced telecommunications be operated in a nondiscriminatory manner threaten to undermine the vibrant competition and dynamic innovation that the Internet unleashed. CFA will file the 110-page white paper, The Public Interest in Open Communications Networks, in nearly a dozen proceedings pending before the FCC and the Courts, proceedings that will affect the future of broadband communications. The paper argues for principles of open architecture and includes a 12-page Issue Brief that summarizes the full white paper. more...

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