TIA Should Just Stop Talking About Net Neutrality. Then Maybe I will

May 13, 2015

By Ernest Worthman —

Worthman

May 14, 205 — I really am trying hard to stop my diatribe about this but the TIA keeps getting my dander up with its incessant, inflexible pontification on how bad it is. At least once per week I get a broadcast email from them about how horrible the FCC is and how devastating Net Neutrality is.

This week it is whining about how the FCC refused a “fair and reasonable” request to delay sweeping Internet regulations. TIA CEO Scott Belcher released the following statement: “It is deeply disappointing that the FCC has refused a fair and reasonable request to delay the imposition of sweeping new regulations of the Internet that will impact investment in our broadband ecosystem. Let me be clear, these rules will curtail the deployment and expansion of communications networks.”

Really Scott? Give it a break already. Stop complaining and making statements that are you cannot support. You don’t know that and the entire wireless world isn’t going to fall apart because of Net Neutrality. And it is highly unlikely that “these rules will curtail the deployment and expansion of communications networks.” You must have worked for AT&T, pre-breakup.

The TIA is beginning to sound like a broken record. It should now be working on making the best of what happened, rather than broadcasting weekly rhetorical statements that wail about how Net Neutrality is going to destroy the “broadband ecosystem.”