The one piece missing from The Associated Press story on potential Federal Communications Commission regulations of the Internet (“FCC ready to curb secret traffic management by ISPs,” Sun Journal, Feb. 26) is how widespread the agreement is about a bandwidth crisis today.

New applications such as peer-to-peer technologies enable as little as 5 percent of users to consume more than 90 percent of the available bandwidth.

No serious expert on broadband networks questions the need to manage bandwidth hogs. Without that management, networks would implode, and the costly requirements for new, fast-speed lanes would hike up prices, slow new network build-outs and force many civic organizations such as ours to subsidize the bandwidth hogs.

That would be contrary to the democratic spirit of the Internet.

Dr. Gabriela Lemus, executive director

Labor Council for Latin American Advancement

Washington, D.C.