T-Mobile CFO: Less Regulation, Repeal of Net Neutrality By Trump Would Be 'Positive For My Industry' (tmonews.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TmoNews: T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter spoke at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York City, and he touched a bit on President-elect Donald Trump and what his election could mean for the mobile industry. Carter expects that a Trump presidency will foster an environment that'll be more positive for wireless. "It's hard to imagine, with the way the election turned out, that we're not going to have an environment, from several aspects, that is not going to be more positive for my industry," the CFO said. He went on to explain that there will likely be less regulation, something that he feels "destroys innovation and value creation." Speaking of innovation, Carter also feels that a reversal of net neutrality and the FCC's Open Internet rules would be good for innovation in the industry, saying that it "would provide opportunity for significant innovation and differentiation" and that it'd enable you to "do some very interesting things."

Comments

Would it be positive for your customers?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you name one thing that your customers actually want that is actually being prevented by network neutrality regulations? Or is this more of the same big business "we'll tell you what you want and you'll like it!" bullshit we've gotten for years and years?

Re: Would it be positive for your customers?

[Anonymous Coward]

You obviously have no idea what net neutrality is actually about. The idea isn't to make your existing service any better. The idea is to keep it from being choked to death by your ISP so they can serve cat videos from YouTube faster than you can fetch your email because Google has an agreement in place for that.

Net neutrality is an attempt to guarantee that the Big Players can't effectively take-over the Internet so that nobody else can effectively communicate.

Re:Would it be positive for your customers?

[Narcocide]

Upgrade? Hah! You're a funny guy. Netflix will be lucky to not get blocked entirely.

Brave

[Anonymous Coward]

So brave of Mr. Carter to talk about deregulation at a banking conference. I'm sure his notions were vigorously challenged.

Positive for the ISPs

[NotInHere]

But bad for everyone else. The ISPs control a bottleneck of the usually meshed internet: the last mile. Everywhere else one can route around a bad actor, but there leads only one line to the end users, and it goes through the ISPs.

Why not eliminate the Sherman Antitrust Act, too?

[dgatwood]

By that same standard, the Sherman Antitrust Act, which was designed to prevent precisely the same sorts of abuse that Net Neutrality laws prevent, is also an impediment to innovation and doing interesting things, if by interesting things, you mean using bundling to drive your competition out of the market and creating an oligopoly of content providers owned by the same folks who own the pipes (i.e. the exact opposite of what the Internet was intended to be).

Waiting now

[Anonymous Coward]

For the Trumpistas to come defend the death of net neutrality, on Slashdot of all places. Why not? Everything they once claimed to stand for can go down the toilet as long as they get to worship their racist stale cheeto lord.

Lets turn the dial to zero then

[mystik]

How about we give him exactly what he wants.

And remove the regulations that forbid or make difficult municipal internet & Wifi?

And remove the regulations that make it harder for groups to even attempt to enter the last mile to compete?

I mean, if we're gonna roll back regulations, lets roll them back!

What carriers want is not to be carriers

[presidenteloco]

They want to be closed worlds, revenue generating from everything you do on their network and with their business partners only.

They want perpetual customer lock-in, because each "carrier's" dog's breakfast of apps and locked-content portals would be so different from other carriers' offerings that it would be too confusing and too much work to ever change the "Carrier-net" (as opposed to Internet) that you belong to.