Top ISPs threaten to innovate less, spend less on network upgrades
Found on Ars Technica on Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Think you hate your Internet service provider now? Pretty much all the top ISPs in the country just told the Federal Communications Commission that if they face extra regulation, they will stop investing as much as they do today in network upgrades, and they will have to stop being so innovative.
Consumer advocates say common carrier status is needed for the FCC to impose strong network neutrality rules on Internet service providers. Such rules would force ISPs to treat all third-party Web services equally, not degrading competing services or speeding up Web services in exchange for payment.
So be it then. Others will come and take over their customers by providing a better service. You know, free market and all that.