AT&T makes case for user-driven ‘fast lanes’

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If people want to prioritize one website over another on their own Internet service, they should be able to, according to AT&T. Company officials recently met with Federal Communications Commission lawyers to argue that the agency should not ban Internet “fast lanes” that individual users want placed on their service.

For instance, a business might want to give workers faster access to certain websites over others when traffic gets clogged, to incentivize employees to stay on task rather than surf the web, AT&T argued. “To preemptively and categorically block consumers from making these types of choices over their own Internet access connection before anyone even knows what the service might look like would needlessly stifle innovation and deny consumers the ability to tailor their own Internet service to their own needs,” AT&T said in an FCC filing summarizing its meeting.


AT&T makes case for user-driven ‘fast lanes’