"Broadband providers do not block access to content," National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Kyle McSlarrow said in prepared testimony for a Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill.

McSlarrow said that while the cable industry supported a bill, introduced by House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) to improve data collection on where broadband has been deployed in the U.S. as well as tax incentives or public-private partnerships to extend Internet service to rural areas, it did not support the bill Markey and the subcommittee were considering at the hearing.

That bill, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act would essentially enshrine the FCC's four network-nondiscrimination principles into law, although in language general enough to be open to regulatory discretion.

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