In 2010, the FCC enacted net neutrality rules aimed to prevent Internet service providers from blocking, slowing down, or speeding up access to websites based on how much they pay — and the agency was sued by Verizon for overstepping its authority. Now that the FCC is reconsidering those rules to either make them weaker or possibly reclassify ISPs so that the agency can enforce neutrality. But no matter how it moves forward, the agency expects to be sued.
“Let’s make sure that we understand what is going on here,” said FCC Chair Tom Wheeler on Friday[via DSL Reports]. “The big dogs are going to sue regardless of what comes out.”
Several large ISPs, led by Verizon, have already stated they will file lawsuits if the FCC attempts to reclassify broadband, which is currently designated as a lightly regulated information service, as telecommunications infrastructure.
“Any time the commission has been moved to do something” about neutrality, said Wheeler, “one of the big dogs have gone to sue, so I guess we should be informed by history.”
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3 comments:
That's because every move they want to make gives them control over our now self regulated personal internet. There are no ISP's out there slowing down or speeding up services, and if they do they will lose their customer base! We need a lot less government control than the government thinks we do! Keep their noses out of the tent, please.
Like the Affordable Care Act, Net Neutrality actually means the opposite.
Sand Box John
6:46AM
You're wrong about ISPs and Verizon is the worst offender of them all.
Verizon refuses to upgrade border routers, that slows down their network internally because traffic cannot get out onto the open internet. The packet's TTL(time to live) is exhausted and it dies at Verizon's border.
Verizon's 'war' with NetFlix is the major contributing factor, Verizon wants to sell Fios and doesn't want 'their' customers streaming onto their network..,
It's all for the money and BTW, Verizon won't lose customers, because they're the only game in town for most of the Shore.
The point is, ISPs need to be reclassified as 'common carriers', period.
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