Mayors back President Obama on network neutrality

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A handful of mayors want lawmakers to back President Obama’s plan to reclassify the Internet as a public utility.

The mayors of New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland (OR) have prepared a letter for Capitol Hill asking it to back the call for aggressive regulations to ensure Internet service companies such as Comcast or Time Warner Cable treat access to all websites equally. “We believe that the most effective way to truly protect the open Internet is for the [Federal Communications Commission] to break with its previous approach and reclassify broadband Internet as a telecommunications service subject to regulation as a common carrier,” the mayors told lawmakers. "This approach would enable the FCC to require sufficient transparency for consumers to make informed choices and accurately assess the services they are being provided."

[Nov 14]


Mayors back President Obama on network neutrality