This is actually beautifully ironic to those who understand what is going on here. AT&T has quietly backed and financed (some might say "astroturfed") the whol

This is actually beautifully ironic to those who understand what is going on here. AT&T has quietly backed and financed (some might say "astroturfed") the whole push for net neutrality... of wired networks. Why might they do that? Isn't AT&T an evil carrier? It's pretty simple, actually. AT&T has a massive network built for delivering phone calls. The operation of this network does not depend on packet prioritization, so it is not affected by net neutrality. Who is affected though? Cable carriers rely on packet prioritization to deliver voice calls with the approximate quality of AT&T's separate network. Net neutrality doesn't affect AT&T much, but it harms their competitors' business plans. So it's easy to see why AT&T, who backed net neutrality when it was in the interest of harming their upstart competitors, might feel that applying it to wireless networks, where it affects them, is a "bait and switch." They baited a bunch of Congress critters to interfere in the ISP business, and now the scope of that mandate is being switched on them.