Big Broadband: Regulating Internet Like a Utility Would Stifle the Internet

FCC's Wheeler is caught in the middle

The Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler is getting it from all sides on his net neutrality proposal—caught between consumer groups, big Internet companies, and now big broadband providers, all of whom are decidedly unhappy.

A group of the nation's biggest broadband providers—plus the lobby groups that represent them—wrote to five FCC commissioners Tuesday warning that regulating the Internet like a public utility (known as Title II) would stifle Internet investment and would still allow "paid prioritization," the key war cry of the protesters.

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