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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3062631" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>Absolutely nothing to do with it. See Riley's comment above, which I also quote at the bottom of this post.</p><p></p><p>Read your own link:</p><p>While the company says the plans are intended to give customers the choice of levels of service, the plans seem to be in conflict with the FCC's new net neutrality rules. Those controversial rules, passed just before Christmas, prohibit mobile carriers from blocking access to websites or "blocking applications that compete with the provider's voice or video telephony services, subject to reasonable network management."</p><p></p><p>The <em>current</em> form of Net Neutrality was implemented in 2015, but that was because the <em>prior</em> form--used in this instance--was struck down by the courts.</p><p></p><p>You yourself note that there was a specific agreement here as a condition of the spectrum auction. That is a unique circumstance that wouldn't apply in the general case.</p><p></p><p>Again, the prior NN rules were in effect at this time. "Pressured to reconsider" should be read as "pressured to reconsider before we bring out the big guns." See also: "nice place you've got here; be a shame if something happened to it," only with the force of legitimate law (well, regulation) instead of criminal extortion.</p><p></p><p>I don't feel like going through the rest of them, but I linked to and quoted an alternate source above that tells a little more. In any event, you <em>must</em> remember that NN was in place since at least 2011; it was struck down in 2014 on strictly procedural grounds, then reimplemented in 2015 in accordance with the court's guidelines.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Bingo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3062631, member: 13624"] Absolutely nothing to do with it. See Riley's comment above, which I also quote at the bottom of this post. Read your own link: While the company says the plans are intended to give customers the choice of levels of service, the plans seem to be in conflict with the FCC's new net neutrality rules. Those controversial rules, passed just before Christmas, prohibit mobile carriers from blocking access to websites or "blocking applications that compete with the provider's voice or video telephony services, subject to reasonable network management." The [I]current[/I] form of Net Neutrality was implemented in 2015, but that was because the [I]prior[/I] form--used in this instance--was struck down by the courts. You yourself note that there was a specific agreement here as a condition of the spectrum auction. That is a unique circumstance that wouldn't apply in the general case. Again, the prior NN rules were in effect at this time. "Pressured to reconsider" should be read as "pressured to reconsider before we bring out the big guns." See also: "nice place you've got here; be a shame if something happened to it," only with the force of legitimate law (well, regulation) instead of criminal extortion. I don't feel like going through the rest of them, but I linked to and quoted an alternate source above that tells a little more. In any event, you [I]must[/I] remember that NN was in place since at least 2011; it was struck down in 2014 on strictly procedural grounds, then reimplemented in 2015 in accordance with the court's guidelines. Bingo. [/QUOTE]
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