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Title: Verizon Consumer CEO Says Net Neutrality 'Went Literally Nowhere'

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/21/16502...

Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath has declared that net neutrality
regulations "went literally nowhere." Sampath claimed he couldn't identify
what problem net neutrality was attempting to solve, despite Verizon's
history of aggressive lobbying against such rules. "I don't know what net
neutrality does," Sampath told The Verge. "I still don't know what problem we
are trying to solve with net neutrality." When pressed about potential anti-
competitive behaviors like zero-rating services, Sampath deflected by
focusing exclusively on traffic management concerns, arguing that networks
require prioritization capabilities during congestion. "For traffic
management purposes, we need to have some controls in the network," he
stated. The interview comes as Verizon faces a different regulatory challenge
from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who is holding up Verizon's Frontier
acquisition over the company's diversity initiatives.

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