FCC’s Comcast ruling: Not unreasonable

Posted by Richard Koman @ August 4, 2008 @ 8:32 AM delivers a scathing attack on the FCC decision against Comcast. Orlovsky’s sources tell him the FCC’s statement (PDF) was drafted and then redrafted after the vote, resulting in a self-contradictory document. But the evidence Orlovsky quotes for this alleged schizophrenia is contained not in the official statement, but in chairman Martin’s personal statement (PDF) (all five commishes released their own). Martin says: We do not tell providers how to manage their networks. They might choose, for instance, to prioritize voice-over-IP calls. In analyzing whether Comcast violated federal policy when it blocked access to certain applications, we conduct a fact-specific inquiry into whether the management practice they used was reasonable. Based on many reasons, including the... [read full story]