In Net Neutrality Docket, Carriers Urge Presumption of Reasonable Network Management

Whatever decisions the FCC ends up making about whether to codify network neutrality rules, whether to apply them to wireless networks, whether to impose nondiscrimination and transparency requirements, and how to determine what constitutes reasonable network management, it is likely to find support for its position somewhere in the flood of comments from wireline and wireless network operators; Internet content and applications providers; equipment manufacturers; public interest advocates; and academics and think tanks.

Within some categories, such as civil rights organizations, parties offered differing basic viewpoints on the desirability of net neutrality mandates and their potential impact on broadband deployment.

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Clyburn: Open Internet Is Vital To Minority-Owned Startups

FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn expressed "surprise" at a Jan. 22 policy summit that "the leading groups representing people of color" have submitted "virtually nothing" in FCC filings on the "make-or-break issue" of an Internet nondiscrimination mandate, which she said would help maintain low market-entry barriers for Internet "cyberpreneurs."

Speaking at the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council's Broadband and Social Justice Summit in Washington, Commissioner Clyburn took a position on

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