While no final decisions likely have been made,...
While no final decisions likely have been made, the FCC appears unlikely to reclassify broadband as a Title II service, Paul Gallant, analyst at Guggenheim Partners, said Friday in a research note. “We don’t believe any final decisions have been…
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made, but we continue to believe the most likely outcome is for the FCC to keep broadband classified under Title 1 and adopt rules that clearly restrict paid prioritization.” That would likely be the preference of Chairman Tom Wheeler, and few big Internet companies are pressing for reclassification, he wrote. Meanwhile, MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte said in a video blog post he questions whether net neutrality rules make sense (http://bit.ly/1sJQZeH). All bits are not equal, he said. “People don’t appreciate that a book, a normal novel, is about a megabyte,” he said. “And yet a second of video is more than a megabyte. So when you look at video for a couple of hours it’s the equivalent of hundreds of books.”