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The Federal Communications Commission says it has had "productive" discussions with Comcast and T-Mobile USA about whether data cap exemptions conflict with the goals of net neutrality.
The FCC sent letters last month asking Comcast, T-Mobile, and AT&T to meet with commission staff by January 15. The FCC has met with Comcast and T-Mobile, but not AT&T. A meeting with AT&T has been scheduled.
"FCC staff had productive discussions with company representatives as part of a larger policy examination of trends in the market. We cannot comment on the details of individual meetings," FCC spokesperson Kim Hart told Ars.
When asked if there will be any action taken against the companies, Hart said, "This is not an enforcement action or investigation, as the Chairman [Tom Wheeler] has made clear. Direct dialogue with companies is an important way in which the Commission can watch and learn, and consistent with our approach in the Open Internet Order."
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 20 2016, @03:22AM
File a complaint about your provider if they do this kind of incentivization. Use this nice web interface on the FCC site, they will forward the complaint to the company in question witch issues a response. https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us [fcc.gov]
I sent in my complaint to t-mobile about their misleading neutrality claims conflicting with their new video "optimization"/throttling. I got a nice voice mail and paper letter in response. Whats more important though is that the FCC know that people are pissed off and sending lots of complaints.
Also consider contacting your congressmen. I haven't gotten to that yet, but I'll send a nice complaint about how allowing such practices is basically requiring content providers and carriers to negotiate deals to complete on even terms with established players is horrible for small business, both content providers and ISPs: its the classic monopoly problem, and results in reduced competition and artificially inflated costs for the consumer. There is no benefit to this for any humans (other than the owners of the monopolies).
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday January 20 2016, @02:54PM
I got a nice voice mail and paper letter in response.
Presumably telling you you're a valued customer and they care about you and go fuck yourself?
Whats more important though is that the FCC know that people are pissed off and sending lots of complaints.
Also consider contacting your congressmen. I haven't gotten to that yet, but I'll send a nice complaint
Ah, good. Bcc: for the win :)
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday January 20 2016, @07:11PM
There is no benefit to this for any humans (other than the owners of the monopolies).
And for the congressman. Don't forget the campaign contributions.