Wireless To FCC: Don't Tread On Us

Wireless advocacy group Mobile Future (AT&T, T-Mobile, among others) told the Federal Communications Commission that it needs to take the "unique challenges" of wireless broadband in mind when it considers a legal framework for broadband Internet access service.

If it does, says the group, it will recognize that reclassification would ignore that uniqueness and "thwart innovation and investment in the wireless space. Among the distinctions between wired and wireless broadband, they say, are the spectrum constraints of wireless and the need for sophisticated traffic management that hinges on a number of moving pieces, including proximity to the cell site, topography, cell site capacity, weather and the device accessing the network.