AT&T started the modern network neutrality debate in 2005 by insisting they were going to charge companies who already pay for bandwidth an extra toll to reach their customers more quickly. Fast forward to 2010 and AT&T lobbyists have all but crushed any efforts to pass real customer protections preventing this, and the FCC is looking at partially reclassifying ISPs as common carriers to ensure they have the authority to police bad ISP behavior. AT&T for one says this won't stop prioritization:As previously noted, AT&T likes to conflate normal network management and QOS with paid sweetheart prioritization deals. AT&T's real goal is to ensure the FCC doesn't get any additional authority to police broadband carriers (be they on issues of price, service quality or neutrality), so they're arguing that reclassification won't accomplish what the FCC and consumer advocates believe it will. AT&T last week supported a now scrapped neutrality bill in Congress that would have prevented the FCC from reclassifying carriers.