Net Neutrality – Bell South Executive Continues Telco Push for “Pay for Priority”

Bell South has joined with other telco companies, including AT&T, in claiming the right to charge content providers, and other users of their facilities, differing amounts for priority access to transmission facilities. So, for example, one web hosting company might pay a higher fee to Bell South than another, thereby ensuring that it had less latency than a competitor. Telcos claim that these charges are no different than search engine “pay for placement” fees, while other observers allege that it challenges the fundamental nature of the Internet as a neutral transmission network. freepress article