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Article: No one neutral about net free-for-all: Seidenberg: costs of building backbone must be shared.
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- February 13, 2006
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There was an accusation of a network operator blocking a rival phone service, deals that could put some preferred email on a fast lane on the Internet and, along the way, U.S. Senate hearings examining just who should control what consumers access on the Web. Those blows last week only added to the growing fight between companies who have communications networks and those who don't, as to how 'neutral' those nets should be, in what they carry.
Neutrality boils down--at present--to three flash-point issues involving network operators such as cable companies: whether they should be allowed to block certain rival services, such as Internet voice calls, from ...