FCC’s Chairman Hints at Move Towards Net Neutrality
Source: Wired
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler may be moving the country closer to the notion of network neutrality, the idea that all traffic on the internet should be treated equally.
On Wednesday, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Wheeler hinted that he would support regulations that would treat broadband operations like telephone companies and other “common carriers,” opening the door for the agency to more tightly regulate internet service providers. The idea is to find a new away to prevent ISPs from building “fast lanes” and “slow lanes” for content that travels over their networks.
“We’re going to propose rules that say that no blocking, no throttling, [no] paid prioritization, all that list of issues, and that there is a yardstick against which behavior should be measured,” Wheeler said during a public interview at the event, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Although Wheeler did not explicitly endorse reclassifying broadband providers, he did say that the Title II standard is a better standard for judging what constitutes “just and reasonable” behavior, the Times reports. The FCC will vote on the new proposal on February 26th, he said.
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