WISPA Seeks Net Neutrality Exemption for Small Providers
The Wireless ISP Association urged the FCC to seek comment before imposing net neutrality rules on broadband internet access service providers with fewer than 250,000 subscribers. “The draft item does not adequately consider the extent of the burdens being placed…
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on small BIAS providers by these compliance obligations,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 23-320. “We noted that, in addition to the rules and restrictions the draft item proposes, BIAS providers are already spending time and resources to comply with a host of other regulatory obligations -- creating broadband labels, submitting Broadband Data Collections and responding to challenges complying with digital discrimination rules, and responding to State [broadband equity, access and deployment program] challenges -- all in the same calendar year.” The group met with aides to FCC Commissioners Nathan Simington and Anna Gomez.