Are Net Neutrality Opponents Makin' Stuff Up?

Link to April 26 TechWorld post, "Net Neutrality rules would damage business, says industry-funded study: Telecoms companies to lose jobs, profits".

Excerpt:   Network neutrality rules adopted by the US Federal Communications Commission could lead to the loss of more than 340,000 jobs in the broadband industry over the next 10 years, with few offsetting web content jobs, according to a new study funded by a group opposed to the proposed rules.  [Emphasis added]

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The study ignores large telecom profits in recent years, when AT&T was required by federal regulators to accept net neutrality rules as part of its merger with BellSouth, said Derek Turner, research director with Free Press, also a media reform group. "This industry-funded research is based on deeply flawed assumptions, and amount to nothing more than anti-net neutrality propaganda," he said.