MetroPCS Sues FCC Over Neutrality Rules [Broadband Reports]
MetroPCS is the nation’s fifth largest mobile phone service provider. Recently the company announced new LTE pricing plans that included a $40 economy tier that only provided limited access to the open Internet unless a customer paid an additional $10 fee. However, MetroPCS did allow full access to its own content on this tier. At the time, Broadband Reports raised the issue of whether MetroPCS' offer violated the FCC's recent net neutrality rule making.
Now MetroPCS has offered a very public response to what they think about the charge. They’ve followed Verizon’s lead and sued the FCC in an effort to overturn the rules. MetroPCS claims that the FCC lacked a jurisdictional basis to enact the net neutrality rules.
Like Verizon, MetroPCS filed their claim in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, likely because it is the same court that found that the FCC did not have the authority to prevent Comcast from blocking certain traffic on its network under previous FCC net neutrality principles.
I also can't believe that Google, of all coapmnies, jumped into bed with Verizon on this issue. Google has long been a champion of what most would view as "business morality", but their joint proposal with Verizon goes to show that the more power one gains, the more corrupt one becomes. It's really a crying shame that Google is looking to get some room on the bed that all the other big corporations engage in their money orgy on. The sad part is that we (the consumer) are an unwilling participant and are trapped underneath all the corporate weight. With politicians participating by holding us down by the neck with one hand and taking corporate pay offs with the other, our only hope to escape is if someone company follows a moral compass and stands up for us. I thought for a while that this may be Google, but it seems that now they're just standing in line for their turn to take advantage of us.
Posted by: Giovanni | Sunday, June 03, 2012 at 06:50 PM
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/cable/analyst-comcast-nbc-universal-merger-will-accelerate-cable-price-increases-21821
Any thoughts Mike?
Posted by: Nate Hiatt | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 02:10 PM