How killing Net Neutrality will affect enterprise mobility
Efforts to dismantle net neutrality will likely effect enterprises and the way they do business, from how mobile apps are designed to where companies choose to store data commonly accessed on mobile devices.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intends to vote this Thursday to repeal net neutrality rules the Obama administration implemented to ensure internet service providers (ISPs) treat all data the same.
In the past, ISPs such a Comcast secretly slowed throughput, also known as "throttling," for certain peer-to-peer file sharing applications; others were accused of slowing video-streaming services.
The concern among Democrats, industry advocacy groups and some business executives who oppose the changes, is that once net neutrality rules are dismantled, ISPs will begin showing preferential treatment to some streaming services or charge extra for "fast lane" Internet access.