Hollywood: Specialized Services Are Consumer Friendly

Hollywood studios told the Federal Communications Commission that if consumers are going to get quality video or Voice over IP service over broadband, the FCC will need to refrain from applying nondiscrimination rules on specialized services.

And while the Motion Picture Association of America stopped short of saying the FCC should not apply expanded and codified network neutrality rules to wireless broadband, it did say there were special network management issues the FCC needed to take into account. The MPAA left do doubt it was categorically opposed to applying network neutrality to managed services. "The Commission should clarify that commercial agreements for enhanced performance will remain unregulated," it said. The studios pointed out that there is a growing demand for online video from a new generation that is mobile and hungry for ever-more content, which requires the network prioritization -- say video over e-mail -- that prevents the jitter and delay that degrades the video experience.