Public Knowledge, August 24, 2010
By Art Brodsky

It's fine to talk about consumers having transparency in how their network operators manage traffic, but it is hardly "the key to making the market work," as Verizon's Tom Tauke claimed. There is no market. And the notion that other data services should be somehow exempt from regulation, subject only to "monitoring" by the FCC is similarly ludicrous. The FCC can "monitor" to its heart's content as the industry siphons off popular websites and applications from the Internet.

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