AT&T: drop net neutrality or U-verse gets it (Ars Technica)
AT&T has told the FCC that if it reclassifies broadband providers as common carriers, it will “have to re-evaluate whether we put shovels in the ground.” Interestingly enough, AT&T has already admitted that they are investing less in the development of this badly needed high speed network.
“AT&T has already slowed down U-verse deployment under the current Title I regime,” declared S. Derek Turner [of Free Press], “so to blame the FCC for the company’s own investment decisions is simply disingenuous.”
This points out the crucial difference between the understandings of Net Neutrality proponents and opponents. Providers see their network as “their ball,” while we’re asking them to build the playground.