NCTA: Title II Would Be Disaster

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

As the FCC prepares to weigh in on new open Internet rules, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association wants to make clear that overregulation would be risky business.

Taking a page from some of the net neutrality regulation fans in Silicon Valley, NCTA's home page was given over to a redirect to more information on the issue of Internet regulation.

"Unable to connect," said a white box on the NCTA site Tuesday with an accompanying yellow warning triangle. "You can find anything on the Internet except a good reason to regulate it like a public utility."

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John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.