http://fortune.com/2014/06/26/is-municipal-broadband-more-important-than-net-neutrality/
“I do think that if there were real competition in most of the country, then network neutrality may not be that important,” [Christopher] Mitchell [director of Community Broadband Networks at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance] says.
Lawmakers on the Hill, including some members with jurisdiction over telecommunications policy, like what they’re hearing from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on municipal broadband.
http://www.fcc.gov/blog/removing-barriers-competitive-community-broadband
The Chair of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, made a powerful endorsement of community broadband evidenced in this article.
“Removing restrictions on community broadband can expand high-speed Internet access in underserved areas, spurring economic growth and improvements in government services, while enhancing competition. Giving the citizens of Chattanooga and leaders like Mayor Berke the power to make these decisions for themselves is not only the right thing to do; it’s the smart thing to do.”
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/28/technology/security/hack-data-breach/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Hackers have exposed the personal information of 110 million Americans – roughly half of the nation’s adults — in the last 12 months alone.
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday that the agency would examine the type of paid-priority arrangements that Netflix recently entered into with Comcast, a deal that created an uproar of accusations that the F.C.C. was allowing companies to buy fast-lane Internet access to consumers.
The chairman, Tom Wheeler, told a House panel Tuesday that the commission “needs to be looking at and will be looking at” those types of agreements, which are business-to-business contracts known as peering arrangements.
..Mr. Wheeler has long said that peering agreements do not fall under the umbrella of what is commonly referred to as “net neutrality,” which is the focus of the commission’s open Internet proposals introduced last week.