HAYS- Eagle Communications President and CEO Gary Shorman issued the following statement regarding President Barack Obama’s recent announcement calling on the FCC to move away from the longstanding, bipartisan policy of lightly regulating the Internet to a policy that applies highly regulatory Title II regulations to the Internet.

“President Obama’s call for the FCC to impose burdensome and complex Title II regulations on Internet service providers, including small, innovative companies like Eagle Communications, will hamper our ongoing efforts to deploy dynamic new broadband services to rural Kansan households and businesses.
We want to use our resources to expand and improve services and increase speeds for our customers. We would rather focus on expanding internet service to our rural customers instead of hiring legal teams to complete the complex and costly filings that Title II would require.