AT&T: no one can stop our "paid prioritization"

The "paid prioritization" train is leaving the station, and not even the Federal Communications Commission's drive to "reclassify" Internet services as limited common carriers can derail it. Network neutrality advocates, incensed when AT&T first suggested the need to charge some Internet companies for "using his pipes free," won't be pleased to hear that AT&T won't let such deals be halted by the FCC. Even if FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski succeeds in bringing Internet service providers under "Title II", AT&T says it will have no effect on its ability to charges companies more for priority Internet access. "Reclassification is not much of a threat to prioritization," said AT&T's Hank Hulquist. "The FCC has decades of precedence of tariffs that were deemed lawful for the provision of prioritization."