[opendtv] Comcast Agrees With President About No Paid Priority | Multichannel
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- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:24:28 -0500
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Comcast Agrees With President About No Paid Priority
Comcast agrees with the President on network neutrality principles, including
no paid prioritization, no blocking, no throttling, and more transparency, and
says that is its practice now.
In a blog posting Tuesday (Nov. 11), Comcast EVP David Cohen said it may be a
surprise to many, but that is Comcast's position, including supporting strong
rules to enforce that.
What it does not support is using Title II reclassification, a point it made
soon after the President's YouTube video announcement that he was all in for
Title II as the best way to prevent paid prioritization and insure an open
Internet.
Comcast says Title II would threaten the top four ISP's $6.6 billion investment
in infrastructure. "It is simply indisputable that Title II would put these
significant investments in jeopardy and diminish innovation and job creation as
a direct result," said Cohen.
Comcast is subject to the FCC's Open Internet order rules, even the ones thrown
out earlier this year by the court, because the FCC made them conditions of the
NBCU deal.
"In sum, we unequivocally support rules that put in place the necessary
protections of transparency, no blocking, non-discrimination rules, and no
"fast lanes" – but there is no upside gained by imposing Title II
reclassification as a way to put these protections in place, only substantial
risk of harm," said Cohen.
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