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BlackBerry on "App Neutrality"
Net Neutrality: No on Reclassification, Yes on Adding Content & App Providers
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01.21.15 / John Chen
U.S. President Obama and FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler have put net neutrality back on the front burner with their recently announced support for reclassifying both wireline and wireless broadband as Title II services. Congressional committees are holding hearings this week to consider these and perhaps other proposals. Here is BlackBerry’s perspective on the important issues raised by the various proposals under discussion.
BlackBerry is uniquely positioned to comment on these issues. We are a Canadian company offering service to customers in more than 150 countries. We provide the world’s most secure mobile communications platform. President Obama, Prime Minister Cameron, Chancellor Merkel, NATO, the U.S. Department of Defense, and Members of Congress rely on our high security, end-to-end secure communications network to protect their most sensitive communications. We do business with more than 600 wireless carriers globally and are intimately familiar with wireless broadband networks around the world, including in countries with higher and faster broadband penetration than the United States.
Based on our experience, we offer the following observations:
Defining Net Neutrality. There is widespread disagreement in defining the term “net neutrality.” Most discussion has focused on telecommunications carriers and how they operate and manage their physical networks. Neutrality advocates want to prohibit carriers from creating paid, prioritized “fast lanes,” and from slowing down or “throttling” customers using excessive bandwidth. Neutrality advocates argue that such practices will destroy the free and open internet, while the carriers argue such prohibitions will destroy their incentives to invest in infrastructure to carry more traffic.
BlackBerry believes policymakers should focus on more than just the carriers, who play only one role in the overall broadband internet ecosystem. The carriers are like the railways of the last century, building the tracks to carry traffic to all points throughout the country. But the railway cars travelling on those tracks are, in today’s internet world, controlled not by the carriers but by content and applications providers. Therefore, if we are truly to have an open internet, policymakers should demand openness not just at the traffic/transport layer, but also at the content/applications layer of the ecosystem. Banning carriers from discriminating but allowing content and applications providers to continue doing so will solve nothing.
Therefore, any net neutrality legislation must take a holistic view of the entire playing field, addressing both carrier neutrality and content/application neutrality.
Carrier neutrality. Opponents of reclassification fear that someday the FCC will use its Title II authority to regulate wireless rates, notwithstanding the current Administration’s stated intent to forebear from doing so. Proponents of reclassification argue that broadband has become the key telecommunications utility of the 21st Century, and thus must be regulated under Title II to ensure the broadest possible protections for consumers, such as utility-style non-discrimination and universal service mandates.
Given the unique nature of wireless networks, including the highly competitive wireless business in the United States and the bandwidth limitations inherent in spectrum-dependent transport, reclassifying broadband as a Title II service seems excessive to us. In contemplating how to construct a fair set of rules tailored to the special nature of wireless telecommunications, we suggest instead considering a set of rules already in place that fairly reconciles the needs of carriers and consumers. We refer to the FCC regulations set forth at 47 CFR §27.16, which apply to the C-Block broadband spectrum auctioned in 2008. Those rules, advocated at the time by Google and a coalition of public interest groups, mandate two key non-discrimination principles – no blocking and no locking – which have proven to be a solid model for wireless carrier neutrality regulation.
No blocking. The C Block rules prohibit wireless carriers from restricting customers from using devices and accessing applications or any other lawful content of their choice on the C Block network, except as necessary to manage or protect the network for the benefit of all other users.
No locking. The C block rules also prohibit wireless carriers from disabling features on mobile devices they sell to customers, or rigging those devices to prohibit their use on competitors’ networks.
Verizon won the entire C block in the 2008 auction, and has lived under those rules ever since. The rules have withstood the test of time and have functioned well. There is no evidence the rules have failed to achieve their purpose or have failed to protect the principle of an open wireless internet. With that positive experience to guide us, why not extend the C-Block rules to all mobile broadband spectrum and all carriers? Doing so would achieve the President’s non-discrimination and equal access objectives without creating the risk of future price regulation, and would also satisfy several of the key points set forth in the joint proposals advanced by Chairmen Thune and Upton. Customers would benefit from the ability to access any mobile broadband service, any application, or any other lawful content – on any network, using any device.
Application/Content Neutrality. BlackBerry has been in the midst of a turnaround since I took over as Executive Chairman and CEO in November 2013. During the past 15 months the company has stabilized and introduced a variety of new products as we pivot away from our prior reliance on hardware to become a full-service, device-agnostic provider of highly secure and productive software and services. Our balance sheet is strong and our turnaround is proceeding apace.
Key to BlackBerry’s turnaround has been a strategy of application and content neutrality. For example, we opened up our proprietary BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service in 2013, making it available for download on our competitors’ devices. Tens of millions of iPhone and Android customers around the world have since downloaded BBM and are enjoying the service free of charge. Last year we introduced our secure BES12 mobile device management software, once again designed to manage not just BlackBerry phones but also available for enterprises and government agencies whose employees use iPhone and Android devices.
Unfortunately, not all content and applications providers have embraced openness and neutrality. Unlike BlackBerry, which allows iPhone users to download and use our BBM service, Apple does not allow BlackBerry or Android users to download Apple’s iMessage messaging service. Netflix, which has forcefully advocated for carrier neutrality, has discriminated against BlackBerry customers by refusing to make its streaming movie service available to them. Many other applications providers similarly offer service only to iPhone and Android users. This dynamic has created a two-tiered wireless broadband ecosystem, in which iPhone and Android users are able to access far more content and applications than customers using devices running other operating systems. These are precisely the sort of discriminatory practices that neutrality advocates have criticized at the carrier level.
Therefore, neutrality must be mandated at the application and content layer if we truly want a free, open and non-discriminatory internet. All wireless broadband customers must have the ability to access any lawful applications and content they choose, and applications/content providers must be prohibited from discriminating based on the customer’s mobile operating system.
This blog is adapted from a letter sent Wednesday, January 21st, 2015, to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, John Thune, the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Fred Upton, and Ranking Committee Members, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, and U.S. Representative Frank Pallone Jr.
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Tony Abbott: I want to be known as an infrastructure prime minister
Today, the Coalition releases a comprehensive, long-term plan to build the infrastructure of the 21st century.
Click here to read our policy.
Our policy will end Labor's neglect and invest in the infrastructure needed to cut traffic congestion and boost productivity.
If the Coalition is elected, vital infrastructure projects will be underway across the country within twelve months of an election.
If you vote for the Coalition, you know what we will deliver. We deliver infrastructure projects across Australia, including:
$6.7 billion to fix the Bruce Highway;
$5.6 billion to complete the duplication of the Pacific Highway from Newcastle to the Queensland border;
$1.5 billion to get Melbourne's East West Link underway;
$1.5 billion for Sydney’s WestConnex;
$1 billion for the Gateway Motorway upgrade in Brisbane;
$615 million to build the Swan Valley Bypass;
$686 million to finish the Perth Gateway without a mining tax;
$500 million for the upgrade of Adelaide's North-South Road Corridor;
$405 million for the F3 to M2 missing link;
$400 million to upgrade the Midland Highway in Tasmania; and
$300 million for the Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail freight line.
The Coalition will also deliver better infrastructure planning, more rigorous and transparent assessment of taxpayer-funded projects, and a much clearer plan for Australia's future.
The Coalition will retain and strengthen the role of Infrastructure Australia, to create a more transparent, accountable and effective advisory body. It will be tasked with developing a 15 year plan for Australia's infrastructure needs (revised every three years) and a cost-benefit analysis will be published for all major projects exceeding $100 million in value.
If elected, I want to be known as an infrastructure prime minister. But I won’t be all talk and no action like Kevin Rudd.
I commit to delivering an annual statement to the parliament that sets out in clear terms the progress made on major infrastructure projects. This statement will set out the construction status, the amount of Commonwealth money spent, and whether milestones have been met on major projects.
I want Australians to spend less time in traffic gridlock on our roads and more time with their families. I want small business men and women to have more time building their livelihoods and less time stuck in traffic jams.
Only the Coalition can be trusted to deliver the nationally significant infrastructure that our cities and our regional areas need.
source, retrieved 2013-09-09
Coalition Internet Filter Policy Diff
Changed text in the Coalition's internet filtering policy between yesterday & today. Sources at bottom.
Policy on 2013-09-05 [source PDF]
4. Increased Support for Parents
a. Nationally agreed default safety standards for smartphones and other devices, and internet access services
The Coalition believes that keeping children safe online is ultimately the responsibility of parents and others charged with the welfare of children – but they need better support from government and industry.
We will work with mobile phone companies (such as Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and their resellers) to develop online safety standards for smartphones and other devices with mobile network connectivity such as tablets, applicable to their use by children in two age groups: children up to the age of 12 years and teenagers.
As has recently been achieved in the UK, we expect these standards will involve mobile phone operators installing adult content filters on phones which will be switched on as the default unless the customer proves he or she is at least 18 years of age.
The Coalition will work with internet service providers (which provide fixed line broadband services to the home) to develop online safety standards for those services, recognising that they are very often accessed by children.
As has recently been achieved in the UK, we expect these standards will involve the major internet service providers providing home network filters for all new home broadband services, which will be switched on as the default unless the customer specifies otherwise.
This is a very different approach to the discredited compulsory filter proposal championed by the Rudd-Gillard Government, which was abandoned as unworkable.
The Coalition’s approach aims to empower parents – by giving them the choice of whether or not to operate a filter at home, but by establishing the default setting as one which provides maximum protection.
In each case, this work will be led by the Children’s e-Safety Commissioner, who will establish an expert stakeholder group (including representatives of industry and representatives of groups charged with the welfare of children such as schools, parents, police and youth mental health experts) to assist in this work.
The Children’s e-Safety Commissioner will work with industry to ensure that major players offer default safety standards for smartphones and other devices, and internet access services. There would be agreed branding or symbols that could be applied to products and services which meet the default safety standards.
The Children’s e-Safety Commissioner will develop default safety standards for smartphones and other devices, and internet access services, within 12 months of the election.
Policy on 2013-09-06 [source PDF]
4. Increased Support for Parents
a. Improved safety options for smartphones and other devices, and internet access services
The Coalition believes that keeping children safe online is ultimately the responsibility of parents and others charged with the welfare of children – but they need better support from government and industry.
We will work with mobile phone companies (such as Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and their resellers) and internet service providers (which provide fixed line broadband services to the home) to make available software which parents can choose to install on their own devices to protect their children from inappropriate material.
This is a very different approach to the discredited compulsory filter proposal championed by the Rudd-Gillard Government, which was abandoned as unworkable.
This work will be led by the Children’s e-Safety Commissioner, who will establish an expert stakeholder group (including representatives of industry and representatives of groups charged with the welfare of children such as schools, parents, police and youth mental health experts) to assist in this work.
The Children’s e-Safety Commissioner will work with industry to ensure that better safety options for smartphones and other devices, and internet access services are available for parents.
Audio Recordings from 2013-09-05
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Turnball (skip to 26m)
Full text of Media Announcement on 2013-09-06
The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband
The Coalition has never supported mandatory internet filtering. Indeed, we have a long record of opposing it. The policy which was issued today was poorly worded and incorrectly indicated that the Coalition supported an “opt out” system of internet filtering for both mobile and fixed line services. That is not our policy and never has been. The correct position is that the Coalition will encourage mobile phone and internet service providers to make available software which parents can choose to install on their own devices to protect their children from inappropriate material. The policy posted online today is being replaced with the correct version.
Policy with effect following the statement above issued by the Hon. Malcolm Turnbull MP, Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband.
Sources
Coalition backflips on internet filtering policy
Media Release: THE COALITION’S POLICY TO ENHANCE ONLINE SAFETY FOR CHILDREN
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