Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
The current FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, is highly regarded, but some distrust him because he is the former head lobbyist of both the cable and wireless phone industries. He’s also made some statements suggesting he doesn’t understand or opposes network neutrality. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
Charter’s merger sales pitch is pretty straightforward: it argues that it has always been too small to bully Internet companies, TV makers, and its own customers, so it has’un-cable’ practices they hope to extend. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
Broadband companies can have great success offering access to the unfettered Internet. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
The FCC can’t enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
