In a letter to Federal Communications, along with 24 CEOs of major companies including the Facebook[Mark Zuckerberg] and Twitter [Evan Williams] have supported the initiative of net neutrality rules.
"We believe a process that results in common sense baseline rules is critical to ensuring that the Internet remains a key engine of economic growth, innovation, and global competitiveness," the CEOs wrote under the auspices of the Open Internet Coalition to Julius Genachowski, Chairman, FCC, reports PC World.
List of CEO's along with Mark and Evan are,
- John Donahoe, CEO, eBay.
- Steve Chan, Founder, YouTube.
- Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com.
- Jay Adelson, Digg.
- Dan Nye,LinkedIn.
- David Ulevitch,OpenDNS.
- Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Corporation.
- Howard Stringer, Sony Electronics,
- Josh Silverman, Skype.
- Stewart Butterfield, Flickr.
- Also, Google CEO Eric Schmidt who has long supported net neutrality signed the letter.
Other companies that signed the letter are,
- Zynga,
- Vuze,
- Cbeyond,
- Craigslist,
- EchoStar Corporation,
- XO Communications,
- Expedia, IAC,
- One Communications,
- and TiVo.
"An open Internet fuels a competitive and efficient marketplace, where consumers make the ultimate choices about which products succeed and which fail. This allows businesses of all sizes, from the smallest startup to the larger corporations, to compete, yielding maximum economic growth and opportunity," the executives wrote.
The FCC is expected to introduce the formal rules regarding the net neutrality at its October meeting.
Net neutrality is the concept that everyone should have equal access to the internet.
The executives said that the openness of the internet has "fueled an unprecedented era of economic growth and creativity" and that these rules will help to protect that.
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