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Open Internet Coalition (OIC)
Comments of the Open Internet Coalition
Summary: The OIC supports common sense rules to ensure the Internet remains a key engine of economic growth and innovation.
Ad Hoc Telecommunications User Committee
Comments of the Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Committee
Summary: The Committee supports adoption of the Commission’s proposed “Open Internet” rules because preservation of non-discriminatory access to the community of Internet users is essential to every American business, regardless of its size or industrial sector.
Amazon.com
Preserving the Open Internet
Summary: Brief comments and suggested modifications to the FCC’s proposed rules in the net neutrality proceedings.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Comments of the ACLU and the Technology and Liberty Project of the ACLU
Summary: The proposed rule is vital in protecting free speech, civic participation and democratic engagement and allowing it to continue to burgeon online.
The Association of Research Libraries, EDUCAUSE
Comments of the Association of Research Libraries, Educause, Internet2, NYSERNet, and ACUTA
Summary: ARL, EDUCAUSE and Internet2 support the codification of the six principles outlined in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and urge the Commission to adopt clear, enforceable rules to preserve the openness of the Internet as soon as possible.
Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
Comments of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
Summary: These comments address the principles of open Internet access that the Commission articulates in the NPRM and explain that the Commission’s goals have been and will continue to be attained by adopting a regulatory construct that focuses on consumer choice, the clear disclosure of terms of service and network practices, and industry involvement in crafting and enforcing necessary rules.
Data Foundry, Inc.
Comments of Data Foundry
Summary: The Commission must not establish an Internet access regime of prioritization and content filtering, both of which would require pervasive monitoring of all users’ communications.
Dish Network LLC
Comments of Dish Network LLC
Summary: Strong non-discrimination and transparency rules are necessary to preserve a free and open Internet, which will ensure consumer choice and promote competition.
Christian Hogendorn, Associate Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University
Spillovers and Network Neutrality
Summary: This paper argues that ISPs engaging in discriminatory practices would be a significant, discrete change in the economic configuration of the Internet. As such, the loss of positive spillovers would be much greater than, for example, a change in pricing of existing Internet services.
Free Press
Comments of Free Press
Summary: Network Neutrality makes it possible to have an open market for speech and commerce on the Internet, and it is the Commission’s fundamental duty to protect this openness for consumers, citizens, and businesses alike.
Google
Comments of Google Inc.
Summary: Users decide what ultimately succeeds in the online market. It is essential that the Commission take action now to protect this openness.
Institute for Policy Integrity, New York University School of Law
Free to Invest: The Economic Benefits of Preserving Net Neutrality
Executive Summary: By giving players the best incentives for optimal investment, net neutrality encourages a cycle that breeds more content, which in turn breeds more users.
Media Access Project
Comments of Public Interest Advocates
Summary: Public Interest Advocates urge the FCC to adopt rules which ensure that Internet users are able to freely access content, applications, and services of their choice.
Media Action Grassroots Network
Comments of Media Action Grassroots Network (Colorofchange.org, presente.org, Applied Research Center, Afro-Netizen, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Native Public Media, and Rural Broadband Policy Group)
Summary: Open Internet protections are critical for low-income, immigrant and minority communities.
Kip Meek & Robert Kenny, Ingenious Consulting Network (prepared for CCIA)
Network Neutrality Rules in Comparative Perspective: A Relatively Limited Intervention in the Market
Summary: This paper seeks to put the US network neutrality debate into the wider international regulatory context.
National Hispanic Media Coalition
Comments of the National Hispanic Media Coalition (“NHMC”)
Summary: Net neutrality principles are necessary to ensure people of color enjoy opportunities to share their stories fairly and accurately.
New America Foundation and Public Interest Commenters
Comments and Submission of Technical Report: Any Device And Any Application On Wireless Networks: A Technical Strategy For Evolution
Summary: This report provides a technical overview and recommendations concerning the feasibility and implementation of the Commission’s proposed codification of the open Internet principles as applied to commercial wireless networks.
Open Media and Information Companies Initiative (Open MIC), Trillium Asset Management Corporation
Comments of Open Media and Information Companies Initiative, et al
Summary: Preservation of a free and open Internet requires the adoption and implementation of clear principles, policies and practices by Internet Service Providers.
Public Knowledge
Comments of Public Interest Commenters (Center for media Justice, Consumers Union, Media Access Project, New America Foundation, Public Knowledge)
Summary: While PIC concur with the conclusion in the NPRM that the Commission has more than adequate authority to adopt the proposed rules, PIC propose alternate theories of Commission authority more consistent with the purpose of those rules, linking the exercise of authority directly to the underlying transmission component of broadband access service.
Skype
Comments of Skype Communications S.A.R.L.
Summary: Adopting enforceable rules in this proceeding will foster competition and innovation throughout the Internet ecosystem.
Sling Media
Comments of Sling Media, Inc.
Summary: Codifying the existing Internet Policy Statement principles in a technology-neutral manner, in addition to the new proposed rules governing nondiscrimination and transparency, will protect consumers’ ability to run applications and services of their choice, including the SlingPlayer Mobile application.
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