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"Information Super Traffic Jam"

Publication Type: Other Voices
Date: 1/31/2007

Phil Kerpen, policy director for Americans for Prosperity, wrote in an editorial commentary for Forbes that substantial new infrastructure investments and deployment are neccesary in the face of increased global traffic, but that such efforts might be hampered by net neturality mandates.

...the Internet doesn't need to be saved -- it needs to be improved, expanded and bulked up. An attempt to "save" the Internet in its current state would be something akin to saving the telegraph from the telephone.
Without enormous new investments to upgrade the Internet's infrastructure, download speeds could crawl to a standstill. It would be unfortunate if network neutrality proponents successfully saved the rapidly aging, straining Internet by freezing out the technological innovations and infrastructure investments that would enable next generation technologies to be developed and deployed.

Americans for Prosperityis an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state and federal levels.

"Information Super Traffic Jam"