Wireless companies: Don’t put ‘fast lane’ rules on us

CTIA-The Wireless Association is are pushing back against an effort to ban them from slowing or blocking people’s access to the Internet. CTIA head Meredith Attwell Baker sent a letter to members of Congress telling them to pressure the Federal Communications Commission not to extend its network neutrality rules to wireless.

Baker’s group includes phone giants AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile as well as device manufacturers, Dish Network and other companies. Their service has “physical limitations and policy constraints,” she wrote, which means that “mobile networks may need to subject different uses or users to differentiated treatment on a real-time basis to provide all consumers with the level of service they have come to expect."