AT&T and #verizon tell the FCC to back off on net neutrality complaints
December 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
Verizon and AT&T have responded to letters from the Federal Communications Commission that argued the companies’ sponsored data plans are harming consumers and the open internet.
The companies defended the programs, which allow select data sources to not count toward customers’ data plans through a process known as zero-rating. Although it did not explicitly ban them in new net neutrality rules laid out last year, the FCC has been critical of such programs, arguing that they can be used to hurt competition by unfairly favoring some data, creating an uneven playing field for businesses.
In a noticeably pointed response, AT&T takes a similar line to the position it’s held all along: programs like…
