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AT&T Caves In On Net Neutrality


Huge news out of San Antonio tonight as AT&T, which is headquartered here, gives in to several critical demands so that its proposed BellSouth merger go through. As the Save the Internet Blog notes:

The phone company filed a “letter of commitment” with the Federal Communications Commission in which it promises to observe Net Neutrality principles for at least 24 months. Now it’s left to Congress to follow the FCC’s lead and make Net Neutrality permanent under the law.

Ben Scott, of Save the Internet and the Free Press, will be on the radio tomorrow with me at 430pm central to talk about this critical development and more.


Sean Paul Kelley December 28, 2006 - 11:59pm
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Is there any linkage

or discussion to exactly which "principles" AT&T is planning to follow?



"If you can’t trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and
not have to say why, then whom can you trust?" - Garrison Keillor

Rick December 29, 2006 - 12:09am
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Here is a link to an AP

story: here.

If you have questions for Ben be sure to write 'em up in here. We're going to try and get an AT&T spokesman come on the show too.

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination."

Sean Paul Kelley December 29, 2006 - 12:23am
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I have a question for AT&T as a paying customer.

If they do not support Net Neutrality exactly why should I pay for their services to limit my freedom to access information? Their current fees give me access now what is the benefit to me if they limit my access and why should I continue to generate revenue for them for less services?

SilverOwl December 29, 2006 - 12:34am
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Interesting

but 24 months isn't very long, and this doesn't seem to set any precedent for behavior after that period. In fact, it seems to augur non-neutrality after the two-year period.

AT&T said it would "maintain a neutral network and neutral routing in its wireline broadband Internet access service" for two years.

Raja December 29, 2006 - 7:44am
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I am coming to view net

I am coming to view net neutrality as framed in it's current perspective totally irrelevant. The industry itself is finding news ways to censor "objectionable" material. This is an example. There are many ways being developed.

Dec 28 2006 6:11P

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Lasthorseman December 29, 2006 - 10:38am
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