The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should not hold mobile carriers to the same net neutrality rules as it does for wired broadband providers because of unique mobile network management challenges, the head of the largest U.S. mobile trade group said.

CTIA President and CEO Meredith Attwell Baker on Wednesday repeated the trade group’s objections to calls by some advocates and members of the public for the FCC to hold mobile carriers to the same rules of wired broadband providers as the agency considers new net neutrality rules.

Members of CTIA support net neutrality principles, but mobile broadband providers have limited spectrum that require “dynamic” network management practices, Baker said at a mobile broadband forum in Washington, D.C., hosted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

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