BlackBerry CEO John Chen set off a barrage of online chatter Wednesday when he proposed that any rules the U.S. adopts to preserve Net neutrality also should guarantee application neutrality. Chen made the proposal in a letter to the chairmen and ranking members of two U.S. congressional panels and posted an adapted version on the company’s blog. Both the FCC and Congress currently are considering ways to address Net neutrality — the idea that service providers must treat all traffic on the Internet equally.
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Chen Calls on Congress to Mandate BlackBerry Apps
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. January 22, 2015 04:25 PMBlackBerry CEO John Chen set off a barrage of online chatter Wednesday when he proposed that any rules the U.S. adopts to preserve Net neutrality also should guarantee application neutrality. Chen made the proposal in a letter to the chairmen and ranking members of two U.S. congressional panels and posted an adapted version on the company’s blog. Both the FCC and Congress currently are considering ways to address Net neutrality — the idea that service providers must treat all traffic on the Internet equally.