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  Speaker 1: on Bloomberg. Rady pasting live from the Kimpton Morrison House
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  Speaker 1: D two. And you know, Kathleen, one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that everyone seems to rely on is an understanding of
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  Speaker 1: the government's position and the Internet, and of course saved
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  Speaker 1: the Internet net neutrality all very important topics, and here
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  Speaker 1: to help us understand it a little bit better is
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  Speaker 1: a Brad Barker. Brad is a senior analyst for a
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  Speaker 1: I go uh into your Bloomberg Brad, thanks very much
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  Speaker 1: for spending time with us. Tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: what is net neutrality and what is going on with
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  Speaker 1: the court system when we're waiting for a big decision. Sure, thanks, Pim,
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  Speaker 1: Hello Kathleen, thanks for having me here. So, net neutrality
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  Speaker 1: essentially prevents um I sps from creating fast lanes on
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  Speaker 1: the Internet. In other words, they can't charge a Netflix
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  Speaker 1: or somebody else similar extra money to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: they connect you to to UH to the end user,
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  Speaker 1: which is us, the customer. Now that decision is going
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  Speaker 1: to be handed down by the d C Circuit Court
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  Speaker 1: on any Tuesday or Friday at ten am going forward.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's important for a couple of reasons. Uh. The
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  Speaker 1: first reason is there are two rules going on at
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  Speaker 1: the FCC right now which would be impacted by this
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  Speaker 1: The first one are I s P privacy rules. What
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  Speaker 1: these rules do is they would give the consumer the
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  Speaker 1: ability to opt out from having their UH data collected
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  Speaker 1: by the ice piece such as Comcast or Verizon, and
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  Speaker 1: then have that data then be old to advertisers. This
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  Speaker 1: is something right now that Facebook and Google are allowed
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  Speaker 1: to do because they're regulated under the FTC and not
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  Speaker 1: the FCC. Well, so who is who's fighting whom here
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  Speaker 1: and who's leading the charge on each side? Sure? So
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  Speaker 1: on on net neutrality? What you have? You have a
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  Speaker 1: ten ten century have filed suit and the f c
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  Speaker 1: C is on the other side of this, and most
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  Speaker 1: people seem to think that the FEC will most likely
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  Speaker 1: win this decision. Now you could, we could Who is
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  Speaker 1: the FCC representing? The FEC didn't just wake up on
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  Speaker 1: morning and say let's go after it, didn't, Sure the
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  Speaker 1: FEC is representing the American public. Um they passed net
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  Speaker 1: neutrality rules and two thousand fifteen, which you know would
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  Speaker 1: would would not allow the Internet providers to charge fast
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  Speaker 1: lanes for companies out there as well as create winners.
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  Speaker 1: You know, because if they could charge, say a Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: extra money, then if you had another company who was
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  Speaker 1: smaller and was unable to pay that fee. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Netflix could connect to the consumers faster. Brad, you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: rule number one. What was rule number two? Uh? Now,
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  Speaker 1: if the net neutrialing rules are upheld, it is expected
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  Speaker 1: that the SEC will then go after um the zero
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  Speaker 1: rating pens, which are free data plans which are currently
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  Speaker 1: being offered by by T Mobile, who which which allows
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  Speaker 1: you to connect to Netflix, Apple Music, Amazon Prime and
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  Speaker 1: you can stream your stuff on their on their phones
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  Speaker 1: for free. Now, a lot of people feel that this
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  Speaker 1: is violating the tenants of net neutrality, and everyone seems
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  Speaker 1: to think that if the rules are upheld that the
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  Speaker 1: SEC will then tell T Mobile to shut this down.
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  Speaker 1: You have Sprint who just yesterday announced that if you
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  Speaker 1: sign up for their plan, you'll get Amazon Prime for
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  Speaker 1: free for a year. They could also do the same
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  Speaker 1: thing with uh A. T and T and Verizon also
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  Speaker 1: have their similar plans. Well. Mind a certain extent is
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  Speaker 1: the battle here between people who who do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of streaming online and listen to lots of music and
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  Speaker 1: watch a lot of movies on their mobile phones and
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  Speaker 1: people who don't, who say they're clogging it, they're slowing
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  Speaker 1: it down. They're doing it at my expense. Is that
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  Speaker 1: because it isn't just clear cut who wins and who
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  Speaker 1: loses here, Well, so it sounds sounds a good that's
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  Speaker 1: a good question, you know, undernet neutrality bottom line, if
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  Speaker 1: the rules are shut down, that will allow the the
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  Speaker 1: internet service providers veriz in A, T and T, Comcast,
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  Speaker 1: Time Owner, Cable, et cetera, to charge other other companies
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  Speaker 1: money to use their their pipes. So to speak. If
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  Speaker 1: the rules are upheld, all the internet companies would not
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  Speaker 1: have to to pay anything for using the pipes. And
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  Speaker 1: anybody could you know, it could go online and serve
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  Speaker 1: the web and connect to any any company and not
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  Speaker 1: have to pay extra for it. Well, Brad Barker, hats
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  Speaker 1: off to you. This is a very very important issue
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  Speaker 1: and a very complicated one, and you do a great
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  Speaker 1: job day in and day out at covering for us
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  Speaker 1: as a senior analyst, he's usually in the Washington metro area.
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