Small ISPs should be exempt from strong net neutrality rules, trade group says

Most broadband providers—all but a handful of the largest ones—should be exempt from tough new net neutrality rules being considered by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, a trade group has argued.The FCC shouldn’t impose new rules on small and medium-size ISPs because they lack the market power to selectively block or slow Web traffic as a way to charge websites for prioritized traffic, a lawyer for trade group the American Cable Association [ACA] wrote in recent letters to the