Citizens, based in Stamford, Conn., is increasingly focused on telecommunications as it sheds its utility businesses.
Chen noted that net neutrality is a widely contested term, and that most discussion "has focused on telecommunications carriers and how they operate and manage their physical networks".
It has focused on telecommunications, and a deal struck by BT with Huawei - which denies close ties with the Chinese state - to supply equipment for a £10bn major network upgrade.
The wireless networking business, which focuses on telecommunications products, would then most likely be sold off.
It has previously said its Alstom holding is not strategic as it focuses on telecommunications.
Although AT&T focuses on telecommunications services, not equipment, it is considering an overhaul similar to Lucent's.
The supposedly new strategy for Vivendi Universal, outlined yesterday by Jean-René Fourtou, the chief executive, focuses on telecommunications, French pay TV and American media.
In addition to an outright sale, another possibility is dividing the business into two units, one focusing on telecommunications and the other on network services.
The envoy representing Washington, Terry Kramer, has made it clear that the United States will not accept any language on Internet controls, which he says does not belong in a treaty that should properly focus on telecommunications.
It plans to focus on telecommunications.Shares in Cordiant Communications, a British advertising and marketing company, fell by 65% in one day, after it lost one of its biggest clients, Allied Domecq, a drinks company.
"They're streamlining their business to focus on telecommunications," he said, noting that Corning had recently acquired Oak Industries, a maker of amplifiers and cable TV set-top boxes.
