Big wireless to FCC: be consistent—except when it benefits us: Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica.

Lobbying is a fast and furious game, one where the lobbyists must make every attempt to present things that benefit their industry as if they are a triumph of dispassionate reason—even when their positions seem to contradict one another.

The wireless phone industry filed a document (PDF) Tuesday with the FCC that led us to ponder the mysteries of the lobbyists, because the document amounts to a well-written plea for identical treatment when different technology platforms accomplish the same goal. But the wireless industry only wants consistent regulation when the consistency helps it out. Apply the consistency principle consistently—especially to network neutrality—and suddenly the industry has a bazillion reasons why it's "different."

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