Sentences with phrase «create slow lanes»

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More specifically, Downes says, classifying ISPs as public utilities could have consequences that are as disabling as creating fast and slow lanes.

Now that major cable and Internet companies (usually one in the same) have pressured the FCC to create fast lanes and slow lanes on the Information Superhighway — Google and Verizon requested net neutrality exemption for wireless Internet just last month — small businesses» online presence is in serious jeopardy.

The rewritten regulations prohibit Internet service providers, such as Verizon and Comcast, from blocking, prioritizing content or from creating fast and slow lanes based on a customer's willingness to pay for services.

AT&T proposed to create two lanes, a fast one for any content provider that would pay new fees to AT&T, and a slow one for everyone else.

This would bar Internet service providers from creating multiple levels of connection speeds and charging consumers and companies for access to «fast lanes» — a move critics argue will automatically create «slow lanes,» which will make it very difficult for promising new startups to get up and running.

They've generally promised they won't slow down traffic, block websites, or create fast lanes and slow lanes online.

The majority of the debate revolves around the FCC's proposal to eliminate net neutrality, which would allow Internet service providers to create multiple levels of connection speeds, charging companies for access to «fast lanes» — a move critics argue will automatically create «slow lanes.»

For instance, the computer model produced both the «shock waves» of congestion that travel backwards down motorways and create traffic jams where there is no obvious obstruction («When shock waves hit traffic», New Scientist, 25 June 1994), and the «slow fast - lane» effect, in which so many drivers move into the overtaking lane in frustration at the middle lane's lower speed that the middle lane becomes the fastest - moving.

And when a car from the next lane attempts to join the driver's lane in front of the car, it will automatically slow down or stop to create space and avoid accidents.