Oracle And Cisco Both Support The FCC's Rollback Of Net Neutrality (thehill.com)

An anonymous reader quotes The Hill: Oracle voiced support on Friday for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's controversial plan to roll back the agency's net neutrality rules. In a letter addressed to the FCC, the company played up its "perspective as a Silicon Valley technology company," hammering the debate over the rules as a "highly political hyperbolic battle," that is "removed from technical, economic, and consumer reality"... Oracle wrote in their letter [PDF] that they believe Pai's plan to remove broadband providers from the FCC's regulatory jurisdiction "will eliminate unnecessary burdens on, and competitive imbalances for, ISPs [internet service providers] while enhancing the consumer experience and driving investment"... Other companies in support of Pai's plan, like AT&T and Verizon, have made the argument that the rules stifled investment in the telecommunications sector, specifically in broadband infrastructure.
Cisco has also argued that strict net neutrality laws on ISPs "restrict their ability to use innovative network management technology, provide appropriate levels of quality of service, and deliver new features and services to meet evolving consumer needs. Cisco believes that allowing the development of differentiated broadband products, with different service and content offerings, will enhance the broadband market for consumers."

Comments

Re:They're not wrong

[Proudrooster]

Because it's cheap, extremely profitable, and you ARE in the bandwidth business. If you don't want to be in the bandwidth business become a content provider. Oh wait, you are a content provider and no one wants it in the format you deliver it except for people over 70. Yeah, I am looking at you bundled cable TV with the super slow, super inefficient, space heater, cable box that changes channels slower than midgets running the 100-yard dash.

It's like asking, why would the electric company want to build out their network so we can all plug in electric cars?

It's because that is your business. You sell kilowatt hours.

If you don't want to be an INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER, notice that last word PROVIDER, then get out and go back to selling your (sic) innovative content cable TV and VOIP service.

Cable, you had your shot, you blew it. Now you're just a dumb pipe. Innovate or die, but don't stand in the way of others innovating just because your network is conveniently bigger and you have lobbied for states to pass laws to keep your monopoly going. Ala, the no municipal broadband laws and taking federal FCC grants to build out your network for FREE, then trying to upcharge.

Re:Double Duh

[silentcoder]

Consumers benefit from prioritising traffic based on TYPE. They are HARMED by prioritizing it based on SOURCE. Consumers are doubly harmed when the ISPs can sell higher prioritization to sources that can afford it (since that automatically creates the incentive for ISPs to deprioritize everything else to gridlock levels).

Only the latter is prohibited by net neutrality.