Stop AT&T From Destroying the Net!

AT&T supports paid prioritization. Why should we care?
AT&T and other telecom carriers want to control the Internet, by controlling the flow of information using a technique called "paid prioritization".

What is paid prioritization?
"Paid prioritization is a financial arrangement where a third-party content owner can pay an ISP to 'cut to the front of the line' at congested nodes, or where an ISP engages in 'vertical prioritization' by favoring its own content."

"Paid prioritization is the antithesis to openness, and any regulatory framework that does not presume that such arrangements are harmful to consumers and competition is not real Net Neutrality -- it's fake Net Neutrality trying to pass as protections that will actually preserve the open Internet."

-- Excerpts from freepress.net article: Paid Prioritization: The Antithesis of Openness on the Internet

Why should we care what AT&T thinks about net neutrality? Because AT&T's sheer size allows it to influence public policy.
AT&T's market cap is over $160 billion and it makes over $120 billion in revenue! -- Yahoo Finance

"AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of fixed telephony in the United States, and also provides broadband and subscription television services. AT&T is the second largest provider of mobile telephony service in the United States, with over 92.8 million wireless customers, just behind Verizon Wireless' 93.2 million, and more than 210 million total customers."

"As of 2010[update], AT&T is the 7th largest company in the United States by total revenue, as well as the 3rd largest non-oil company in the US (Behind Walmart and Bank of America). In 2010, Forbes listed AT&T as the 13th largest company in the world and the 8th largest non-oil company in the world, the largest company in the world not associated with banking or oil, as well as the world's largest provider of telecommunication."

-- Excerpts from Wikipedia.org article on AT&T

Stop AT&T From Destroying the Net!

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