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posted by mrpg on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-neutrality-no-data dept.

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With days to go before his repeal of net neutrality rules, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai issued a press release about five small ISPs that he says were harmed by the rules. Pai "held a series of telephone calls with small Internet service providers across the country—from Oklahoma to Ohio, from Montana to Minnesota," his press release said.

[...] But Pai's announcement offered no data to support this assertion. So advocacy group Free Press looked at the FCC's broadband deployment data for these companies and found that four of them had expanded into new territory. The fifth didn't expand into new areas but it did start offering gigabit Internet service.

[...] According to the ISPs' ex parte filings, the only FCC staffers who participated in Pai's meetings with the ISPs were his spokespeople. The absence of staffers involved in research or policy, combined with the timing of the calls and Pai's press release, suggest that "these meetings occurred for the sake of managing public appearances rather than obtaining meaningful record evidence," Wood wrote.

Source: Ajit Pai offers no data for latest claim that net neutrality hurt small ISPs


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @02:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @02:34AM (#610052)

    See the other anon's response about Lexus Nexus... or are you going to provide free Lexus Nexus access and maybe even an expert to go over it?

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