 fairness and neutrality across the Internet; ensuring consistent rules apply to all players, including the most www.TechnicalPDF.com powerful online companies. And America's broadband providers-who have long supported net neutrality protections and have been committed to continuing to do so-will have renewed confidence to make the investments required to strengthen the nation's networks and close the digital divide, especially in rural communities. It's a great day for consumers and our innovation economy. The major carriers are in favor of eliminating network neutrality. They want to be compensated for upgrades to their networks to accommodate increased traffic. Currently, most wireline access in the United States offer tiered unlimited plans for residential customers. Thus, most of these customers have no incentive to cut back on streaming because they pay a flat fee for broadband capacity however much capacity they use. Pro Network Neutrality Proponents Against Fees and Throttling Network neutrality proponents are concerned that network service providers have a monopoly or near monopoly on infrastructure and might slow down (throttle) or even block competitors' traffic in favor of their own services without concerns that subscribers will move to a different ISP. This puts competitive services at a disadvantage against the services offered by broadband providers and might lock consumers out of new, possibly lower-cost, offerings. This could be a problem for streaming providers because they are likely to pass on some of these costs to their customers. It will additionally increase consumer and enterprise costs for broadband connections because ISPs will have the option to charge content providers for not slowing down their traffic. This, essentially, creates a fast lane in networks for large content providers that are able to pay these fees. www.TechnicalPDF.com Web site owners such as Zappos and content providers such as Netflix, Amazon, and Facebook profit from services they sell over the Internet. They pay f