at&t’s Net neutrality “concessions” are meaningless.

The wording is a little tricky, but while they agree not to remove
network neutrality from their standard network, hidden in the middle of
a later paragraph is this sentence:

“This commitment also does not apply to AT&T/BellSouth’s Internet
Protocol television (IPTV) service.”

At first that might seem innocuous, but at&t has always planned on using
the IPTV network as that high-speed toll lane it wants Google, Vonage,
FedEx.com, LexisNexis etc. to pay extra for.

at&t isn’t even set up to put quality of service on their existing
network — so the agreement not to violate network neutrality on that
network is effectively meaningless. It is a sleight of hand that
successfully fooled a bunch of people into supporting the deal.

at&t promises not to violate network neutrality on a network they never
intended to use that way, and carves out permission to use it on their
new network, where they had planned all along to set up additional
tollbooths. This loophole is a real noose around the neck of
E-Commerce.