AT&T says it supports net neutrality and won’t create internet ‘fast lanes’ — while pushing for the right to do just that (T)

• In response to a protest Tuesday in favor of net neutrality, AT&T said it was opposed to “fast lanes and slow lanes” on the internet.
  
• In the same statement, though, the company essentially said it actually does want to offer a form of fast lanes for some applications.
  
• Those applications would include connections for self-driving cars and public safety.

Net neutrality advocates may seem like they’re on the opposite side of the debate from AT&T and other big telecommunications firms — but that’s not how Ma Bell sees it.

Not only does AT&T oppose the blocking or throttling of access to websites or online content — just like net neutrality proponents — it is also, just like them, against the creation of internet fast lanes.

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