Verizon’s Kyle Malady touches on net neutrality while talking about his new job

Asked about net neutrality, Verizon Business CEO Kyle Malady said the Federal Communications Commission has flipped back and forth on the issue over the years. In his view net neutrality wasn’t needed before it was instituted, it wasn’t missed after it was revoked, and it still isn’t needed. When asked if net neutrality would have any impact on the prospects for "network slicing"—when carriers hope to make money selling end-to-end slices of their mobile networks to enterprises for specific use cases—Malady said net neutrality rules mainly apply to the internet, and Verizon’s mobile voice and short message services (SMS) would not be governed by net neutrality. And he doesn’t think network slicing would fall under any new net neutrality regulations. Additionally, the whole topic of network slicing is not that urgent for Verizon at this time, anyway, because network slicing requires a standalone (SA) 5G network, and Verizon doesn't have a full 5G SA network yet.