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FCC to move forward on net neutrality
Dec 01, 2010 10:43 am
WASHINGTON - Politico reports today that according to their sources, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is "moving forward with a net neutrality order at the agency’s December meeting, setting the stage for a likely fight over the contentious web rules on Capitol Hill."
Genachowski released the agenda for the FCC’s Dec. 21 meeting at midnight Wednesday, going right up to the wire to share his plans within the customary three-week time frame for circulating orders prior to an open meeting.
"However, details of Genachowski’s plans are still vague. The agenda released by the agency says only that the FCC will consider 'an order adopting basic rules of the road to preserve the open Internet as a platform for innovation, investment, competition, and free expression,'" according to the Politico report. "The rules, the agenda said, 'would protect consumers’ and innovators’ right to know basic information about broadband service, right to send and receive lawful Internet traffic, and right to a level playing field, while providing broadband Internet access providers with the flexibility to reasonably manage their networks.'”
Also, the agenda did not make clear whether the FCC's proposal will require open-Internet principles to extend to wireless networks as well as traditional wireline networks. It’s also unclear whether the proposal will call for reclassification of broadband, as public interest groups have called for. As a result, it is so far difficult to immediately gauge where the various stakeholders will stand on the order.
Hearing of the agenda, Congresisonal Republicans immediately reiterated their warning that the FCC should not move forward with any net neutrality order, according to Politico, and vowed they would work to topple any FCC-led net neutrality order by reintroducing a bill to prevent the FCC’s policy making process.
Democrats, meanwhile, are lining up behind the FCC's actions, vowing to protect the openness of the Web as it current exists.
Now, has anyone mentioned Wikileaks in this convesration, besides a growing litany of Fox pundits' calls for Julian Assange's execution? Or how this all fits into the new Congress' complete focus on the economy?
Stay tuned...
For full story, click HERE...
Genachowski released the agenda for the FCC’s Dec. 21 meeting at midnight Wednesday, going right up to the wire to share his plans within the customary three-week time frame for circulating orders prior to an open meeting.
"However, details of Genachowski’s plans are still vague. The agenda released by the agency says only that the FCC will consider 'an order adopting basic rules of the road to preserve the open Internet as a platform for innovation, investment, competition, and free expression,'" according to the Politico report. "The rules, the agenda said, 'would protect consumers’ and innovators’ right to know basic information about broadband service, right to send and receive lawful Internet traffic, and right to a level playing field, while providing broadband Internet access providers with the flexibility to reasonably manage their networks.'”
Also, the agenda did not make clear whether the FCC's proposal will require open-Internet principles to extend to wireless networks as well as traditional wireline networks. It’s also unclear whether the proposal will call for reclassification of broadband, as public interest groups have called for. As a result, it is so far difficult to immediately gauge where the various stakeholders will stand on the order.
Hearing of the agenda, Congresisonal Republicans immediately reiterated their warning that the FCC should not move forward with any net neutrality order, according to Politico, and vowed they would work to topple any FCC-led net neutrality order by reintroducing a bill to prevent the FCC’s policy making process.
Democrats, meanwhile, are lining up behind the FCC's actions, vowing to protect the openness of the Web as it current exists.
Now, has anyone mentioned Wikileaks in this convesration, besides a growing litany of Fox pundits' calls for Julian Assange's execution? Or how this all fits into the new Congress' complete focus on the economy?
Stay tuned...
For full story, click HERE...