Cisco Chairman Advises Against Title II

Cisco Chairman John Chambers has told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler the company "strongly supports" his approach to reinstating open Internet rules.

"Your approach of applying a “commercially reasonable” test to new offerings by Internet service providers allows innovative new products and services to develop, while at the same time protecting consumers and competition," he said in a letter to the FCC chairman dated May 13. By contrast, he said, Cisco was "deeply troubled" by proposals to impose what he called "old fashioned telephone regulations of Title II" to broadband Internet access.