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It's OK, everyone – Congress's smart-cookie Republicans have the answer to America's net neutrality quandary

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"Ah, well, what is an 'emergency' or 'security' service?"

Evidently, those need to be defined, and their management as well. I don't think any actual law in US or elsewhere is designed to define them and their management inside an IP network, since most of them were handled on their specific networks previously, but maybe emergency number calls.

But today we see ISPs trying to make money out of those services trying to convince state and authorities that they could be managed on their networks - why deploy your own radio networks for police/firefighters/ambulances/etc. when you can use our own 4G/5G/etc. and free some preciouossssss spectrum we get and then resell at higher prices?

Evidently if those services are moved to IP networks standards and regulations must be developed to ensure they are effective and porn viewers with deep pockets don't hinder other more important services.

The technical options are known - what is required is a regulatory framework.

Including one that doesn't allow incumbents to cut out new entries because their traffic is highly prioritized and others' packets arrive when they can.

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