PC NEWS Bigger picture, the FCC has the authority it needs to provide what the public needs – open, competitive, safe, and accessible broadband networks, he continued. Indeed, that we have authority is well-settled. What remains open is not jurisdiction, but rather the best path to securing the public interest. Those are the challenges that FCC will confront with the Open Internet, the IP transitions, the Incentive Auction, and other issues. The FCC has been down this road before. When the net neutrality debate first started, the FCC handed down an enforcement action against Comcast for allegedly blocking access to P2P services. Comcast sued, and the court in 2010 ruled in Comcasts favor. But the FCC came back with a workaround that it said satisfied the courts concerns and put in place its net neutrality rules. This time around, however, Verizon sued and the court ruled in its favor last month. The easiest way to settle this would be to have Congress step in with a bill that officially puts net neutrality rules on the books. Democrats have already introduced The Open Internet Preservation Act, which would reinstate the FCCs rules while it decides how to proceed. But net neutrality is a deeply partisan issue, and its unlikely that the rules will make their way through both chambers in a manner thats acceptable to net neutrality advocates.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:34:19 +0000
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