On 26 February Vote America’s telecommunications authority the FCC on a new, tough regulation of Internet providers. The network companies are cheering while telecom and cable companies are bracing themselves for battle.
Tom Wheeler, chairman of the US Nations telecommunications agency FCC has announced that he intends to introduce “the strongest protection for open internet that has ever been proposed by the FCC.” It is clear from an article in Wired magazine.
The Authority’s five commissioners will vote on the proposal on 26 February.
acquis applies what is called Net Neutrality – it shall be prohibited for ISPs to provide certain traffic prevail against payment , or else to throttle traffic. The debate on net neutrality in the US has been going on for several years.
The regulation introduces internet access, both fixed and mobile, are defined under a clause of the US Telecommunications Act relating to telephony, which gives the FCC the opportunity to demand transparency and equal treatment, and to monitor compliance with regulations.
Nätbolag such as Netflix rejoices in the FCC’s proposal, while the large ISPs – traditional telecom and cable companies like Comcast and Verizon – protests and claims that the regulation will mean less investment in networks and less innovation.
One of the objectives of the regulatory framework is to reduce the risk of abuse of a dominant market position. The FCC has about 96 percent of Americans access to up to two providers of fixed Internet.
Similar regulations exist for many years in Europe. Since 2000 there is also a demand in Europe for local access, ie the possibility for other operators to connect to telecommunications and cable companies’ managements to the consumer. Tom Wheeler writes in Wired that this will not be included in the new framework.
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