USTelecom, NCTA Arguments on Transparency Exemption Based on Old Complaints, Free Press Says
Free Press told the FCC it should ignore NCTA and USTelecom requests that the agency issue a broad stay of the effective date of the enhanced disclosure rules in the 2015 net neutrality and broadband reclassification order (see 1702060064). The…
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regulator shouldn’t spare just smaller carriers, especially since the rules may be overturned by the FCC, the groups argued. The associations are just recycling old arguments, Free Press said in a filing in docket 14-28. “The NCTA/USTA Letter presents no sufficient justification for granting its last-minute request,” Free Press said. "But what it lacks in reason, it makes up for in audacity and hypocrisy. This letter is part of a years-long concerted effort by BIAS [broadband internet access service] providers to profess unyielding adherence to the principles of transparency, all while working to undermine effective and sensible transparency rules such as those adopted in the various Open Internet orders."