USTelecom: Network neutrality fight distracts from the Broadband Plan

Walter McCormick, president of USTelecom -- the lobbying association for broadband providers -- said that the telecom community should get back to talking about the broadband plan amid all the bickering over network neutrality.

"Our hope as an industry is that we'll be able to get back to the broadband plan and that we'll be able to get back to these consensus objectives," he said. "To the extent net neutrality is an issue that needs to be resolved, [we hope] that there will be an acknowledgement of the fact that there is both an investment and deployment aspect to this that needs to be addressed and that there are also certain social aspirations for how we want the Internet to operate. But this does not need to happen on a partisan basis."