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2006-09-01
Aplus.Net Endorses Net Neutrality
September 1, 2006 -- Web hosting provider Aplus.Net (aplus.net) announced on Thursday that it supports neutrality provisions to current United States legislation regulating telecommunications.
Aplus believes that, if enacted, the net neutrality guidelines would apply "common carrier rules" to Internet service providers, requiring that all Internet traffic be managed on equal terms and helping ensure that all Web content remains equally accessible to all users. If current legislation reconfiguring the Internet is passed without net neutrality provisions, ISPs will have the ability to give priority or preference to certain Web sites.
With more than 75 percent of its customer base consisting of companies with fewer then five employees, Aplus.Net says it holds a stake in the future of America's small businesses. Being the product of a successful small business start-up itself, Aplus.Net is concerned that failure to adopt net neutrality provisions would badly hurt the ability of America's entrepreneurs to grow through the Internet, and therefore damage the US economy as a whole.
"Aplus.Net has taken this position to defend small business interests on the Internet," says Theo Ivanov, marketing director for Aplus. "We don't believe ISPs should be able to play favorites with the content they carry. Likewise, consumers shouldn't have certain content forced on them, while other content is withheld. It creates an unfair playing field, and that's bad economic policy. Some who oppose net neutrality argue that it's unwelcome government regulation. We believe that this is one situation where regulation is not only desirable, it's necessary."
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