Mccain Is The Biggest Beneficiary Of Telco/ISP Money As He Is Against Net Neutrality

27th October 2009

The senator John McCain ranks out to be the top recipient of the campaign contributions from some of the large Internet service providers such as AT&T, Verizon, and also Comcast during the previous two years as by a new report from Sunlight Foundation and also by the Center for Responsive Politics. McCain took a total of $894,379, which is more than the twice of the amount that is taken by the next largest beneficiary, who is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ($341,089).

At the same time, McCain is seen to emerge as the biggest champion of the ISPs who are against the new rules of network neutrality given by the Federal Communications Commission, who voted to move forward, this Thursday, in a process to adopt all such rules. Shortly after the vote of FCC, McCain has introduced a bill which is called the Internet Freedom Act, which would block the regulations of the largest broadband networks of the whole nation.

Net neutrality rules would cost to the federal mandate that the broadband providers can not hinder or block the traffic over the internet, of any web site or any of the services, no matter whether or not that particular site or service completes with a similar site or service that are offered by the ISP itself. Simply it means that a telco ISP can not limit the bandwidth which is used for Skype VoIP traffic, while it maximizes the bandwidth which is available for its own VoIP service.