Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

Miles Fidelman mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Fri Feb 27 16:04:31 UTC 2015


I'd think they'd be better off with some jujitsu, along the lines of:

"We've always practiced network neutrality, not like some of our 
competitors, this won't effect us at all and may enforce some good 
business practices on others"

(As far as I can tell, Verizon has not played games with favoring their 
own content - for all intents and purposes, they operate FIOS as a 
common carrier - no funny throttling, no usage caps, etc.)

I'm surprised they weren't a bit more vocal on the OTHER FCC decision of 
the day - preempting some state restrictions on municipal broadband 
builds - Verizon has been very active in pushing state laws to kill muni 
networks (even in places where they have no intention of building out).

Miles Fidelman

Scott Fisher wrote:
> I am not arguing that they have a valid complaint. I just think their
> method of doing so is a bit childish. It does get the point across,
> just not in the method I respect. Just my opinion though.
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Rob McEwen <rob at invaluement.com> wrote:
>> Scott Fisher,
>>
>> I think Verizon's statement was brilliant, and entirely appropriate. Some
>> people are going to have a hard time discovering that being in favor of
>> Obama's version of "net neutrality"... will soon be just about as cool as
>> having supported SOPA.
>>
>> btw - does anyone know if that thick book of regulations, you know... those
>> hundreds of pages we weren't allowed to see before the vote... anyone know
>> if that is available to the public now? If so, where?
>>
>> Rob McEwen
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Scott Fisher <littlefishguy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Funny, but in my honest opinion, unprofessional. Poor PR.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon at cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/fccs-throwback-thursday-move-imposes-1930s-rules-on-the-internet
>>
>
>


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In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra




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