FCC Chairman wants network neutrality, wired and wireless. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski made his pitch this morning for network neutrality, and he did it in the most business-friendly language he could muster.
But that didn't stop him from arguing that an open Internet must be the rule no matter how one gets on it—wired and wireless connections should both be nondiscriminatory towards content and applications. Genachowski delivered a major address this morning at the Brookings Institution in Washington, laying out his vision of an open Internet and rehashing the many ways that an open Internet is a spur to innovation of all kinds. Today, Internet access suffers from three problems, he said. First is the limited competition among ISPs, which is "simply a fact about today's marketplace. " Second is the perverse economic incentives faced by the major US ISPs, which also sell separate phone and TV service to the same customers who buy Internet access (and can increasingly access such services over the 'Net). Obama: Firmly Committed to Net Neutrality Barack Obama: On Net Neutrality.