Net neutrality rules won’t be effective if broadband...

Net neutrality rules won’t be effective if broadband ISPs “can simply shift blocking, degradation and discrimination upstream to where the broadband access providers interconnect with the rest of the networks that constitute the global Internet,” Netflix executives told FCC General Counsel Jonathan Sallet and other agency officials Monday, said an ex parte filing in docket 14-28 (http://bit.ly/1pjLDS8). Netflix said it supports FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s initiative to bring greater transparency to the issue of interconnection congestion (CD June 16 p1). “Strong net neutrality” will ensure broadband ISPs don’t use their “gatekeeper power” to prevent consumers from “using the online services they want and have paid for,” Netflix said.