NCTA Asks FCC Not to Regulate Provision of Internet Access Services

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission not to regulate the provision of Internet access services, period, echoing its call for "vigilant restraint."

NCTA says that classifying broadband as a Title II telecommunications service is "unsustainable" as a matter of either law or policy, that the FCC should not expand its openness principles to include transparency or nondiscrimination, saying that would be costly and counterproductive, and that any rules it does apply should be applied to wireless ISPs and application providers. That came in reply comments late Monday (April 26) on the FCC's proposed network neutrality rulemaking, just one of a parade of comments that were filed all day, including from the wireless carriers saying net neutrality rules should not apply to them, and public advocacy groups saying that the FCC should reclassify broadband for the sake of keeping a cop on the network management beat.