Sprint’s Net Neutrality Reversal Shows How Bad Things Are for ISPs

When Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler hinted that he might support Title II–meaning his agency could end up treating internet service providers much like "common carrier" telephone companies–we knew that Google and Netflix were pleased. Title II would upload "net neutrality," the notion that ISPs must treat all content equally, and that’s what the Googles and the Netflixes want.

By the same token, most internet watchers assumed that the big internet service providers would hate the idea. After all, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that he’s worried enough a out the specter of Title II to pause a 100 city fiber build-out. If ISPs are common carriers, he argued, then they have little reason to expand their operations. But as it turns out, the situation is more complicated than it might seem.

On Thursday, Sprint said that, unlike the AT&T, it’s actually ok with the Title II idea.

By Robert McMillan

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