(Reuters) - More than 100 technology companies, including Google Inc, Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Amazon.com Inc, have written to U.S. telecom regulators to oppose a new "net neutrality" plan that would regulate how Internet providers manage Web traffic.

The letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and the agency's four commissioners, warning of a "grave threat to the Internet," came as one FCC commissioner called for a delay of a vote on the plan scheduled for May 15.

"Rushing headlong into a rulemaking next week fails to respect the public response to his (Wheeler's) proposal," Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said on Wednesday in remarks prepared for delivery at an industry meeting. She called for a delay of the vote to formally propose Wheeler's plan by "at least a month."

Wheeler has been under fire for proposing new so-called "open Internet" or "net neutrality" rules that would allow content companies to pay broadband providers for faster Internet speeds delivering their traffic as long as the deals are deemed "commercially reasonable."

Consumer advocates are worried the rules would ultimately allow Internet companies such as Comcast Corp or Verizon Communications Inc to create "fast lanes" on the Web for traffic of content companies that pay up, potentially shutting out poorer newcomers.

The latest to weigh in is the consortium of technology and Internet companies, which ranged from household names to small startups. They called on the FCC to "take the necessary steps to ensure that the Internet remains an open platform for speech and commerce."

Commission rules should not permit "individualized bargaining and discrimination," the companies said.

Engine Advocacy and New America's Open Technology Institute, long-time supporters of Open Internet policies, helped organize the effort.

FCC spokesman Neil Grace said Wheeler does not plan to delay the May 15 vote.

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totally full of crap. the real internet was shut down in the late 90's by clinton and also busch.

today's' internet is a private controlled lan controlled by exactly who you shouldn't trust your ass to: ie, microsoft is one

nothing about how it works is how it used to work. they killed it off.

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net neutrality means google et al are not blocking valid signals, like webserving, simply as a contrivance to collect money they caused the need for, or to prevent competition.

net neutrality doesn't mean google et al should get gov grant money to build supercomputers while others cannot afford a phone call or phone

net neutrality doesn't mean some internet users should get a fast lane because they are gov workers, using a trffic preference sytem

net neutrality doesn't mean gov buying chinese wares to save their paycheck

net neutrality doesn't mean not paying the phone bill

FOR THAT MATTER. being a gov worker sholdn't mean sending out mail by usps free and not paying whlie usps post office is hugely missing money while not even attempting to raise rates to cover the theft

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totally full of crap. it's a private lan not an internet.


now remember congress promised the wave of the future and that by swithcing to internet phone (yes, that is what your cell is) and internet tv that the poor wouldn't loose their signal (ie, no pay phones, no tv antennas etc)

but did congress lie ? aren't phone bills $100 / mo and aren't there no more payphones ?

and less jobs too.

the correct way was the first guess by Southern Bell and ATT everyone is still copy-lefting and tryign to damage and cover up: X25

pay by the page

no signal blocking

an internet of routing for those who ask

routing and computing that doesn't lie about the above

Fuck Google. I mean, the NSA.

Stop the FCC from Ruining the Internet in the United States

Stop the FCC from ruining the internet in the united states

The FCC is protecting our freedom right now. They are allow us to access who we choose at maximum speeds for a service we paid for. Which is the way it should always be and what we pay for.

Wheeler has been under fire for proposing new so-called "open Internet" or "net neutrality" rules that would allow content companies to pay broadband providers for faster Internet speeds delivering their traffic as long as the deals are deemed "commercially reasonable."

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just a bunch of fucking liars making news of what they know wont change

there were (ARE) already telephone company agreements

none of the "big players" follow any of the rules

none of them plan to change a thing other than to further lock themselves in a "the only companies elegible for USA gov grant money"

The proposed rules are not about net neutrality in the traditional sense, which was to keep the internet free from government interference and private monopolization.

This new rule proposes to regulate the internet the same as AT&T was regulated in the 1960s. It will be paid for by new taxes paid by end users.