Our Take on Net Neutrality
This morning Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the FCC, delivered a speech at the Brookings Institution here in Washington, D.C. where he outlined his plans for formalizing the principles of network neutrality.
We issued the following statement to reporters seeking a reaction from Sprint Nextel:
Sprint Nextel agrees with Chairman Genachowski that consumers are well served by an open Internet. That’s why we offer consumers open handsets and have long worked with independent software developers who want to create applications for Sprint handsets – next month we host our ninth Sprint Applications Developers Conference. It’s also why we’re investing in the technology and deploying an open 4G network – the first of the national wireless carriers to do so.
Put simply, Sprint wants customers to be able access the applications and the Internet sites they want, when they want to. We look forward to working with the Chairman and the rest of the Commissioners as they work to establish these new policies in a way that meets the expectations of consumers, recognizes the limits of wireless technology and preserves the obligations of carriers to operate networks in a reasonable and responsible manner.
