Public Knowledge filed letters of complaint...

Public Knowledge filed letters of complaint at the FCC Wednesday against the four national wireless carriers, charging they're violating the transparency provisions in the 2010 net neutrality rules. The provisions are the only ones that survived the January court ruling otherwise overturning the rules, PK said (http://bit.ly/1paPVh3). “If the FCC’s transparency rules mean anything, they must require carriers to let subscribers know why, when, and to what speed their connections might be throttled,” said PK Vice President Michael Weinberg. At this point, Sprint and Verizon subscribers “will not know if they are eligible for throttling until after they have crossed the usage threshold,” he said. “AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon subscribers will not know they will be throttled until they are actually connected to a congested cell site.” The complaint against T-Mobile said the carrier must end its practice of exempting speed test applications from network throttling. Last week, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler sent Verizon Wireless a letter asking about the carrier’s announcement it would slow data speeds on its LTE network starting in October, but only for the top 5 percent of data users on unlimited data plans (CD July 31 p1).