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High Tech Files Comments with the FCC Urging a Balanced Approach to Broadband Rulemaking
January 15, 2010Late last night the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to the October 2009 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to preserve the open Internet and the Broadband Industry's practices. ITI's membership is a veritable Who's Who of the firms that design and provide the applications, content, software, hardware and network equipment used by providers and purchasers of broadband Internet access. ITI is, therefore, uniquely positioned to provide the FCC recommendations on the need for a carefully crafted, balanced approach in this proceeding. Most notably, as part of the High Tech Broadband Coalition, ITI previously proposed a balanced set of four conditions that were adopted as Chairman Michael Powell's Four Freedoms for preserving an open Internet. Those Four Freedoms later formed the basis for similar principles announced in the FCC's 2005 broadband Internet access service Policy Statement. Full release.