MMTC Backs FCC’s Wheeler on Open Internet Rules

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler was hearing it from his critics on Internet neutrality. But not everyone was joining the chorus of boos. Minority Media & Telecommunications Council executives met with FCC officials to show their support for Chairman Wheeler's draft network neutrality rules.

According to a filing with the commission, David Honig, president of MMTC, and senior counsel Joycelyn James, said their group supports what they called the chairman's middle ground proposal, with its emphasis on Sec. 706 authority.

MMTC said the FCC should not let the debate over net regulations distract it from taking the steps they feel are most important to promoting broadband to their constituency, including ending broadband "redlining," modernizing the E-rate subsidy for broadband to schools and libraries, promoting telehealth, and increasing ownership and employment opportunities.