New Net Neutrality Rules
April 24, 2014 by staff
New Net Neutrality Rules, The chair of the U.S. communications regulator is defending proposed new net neutrality rules that would allow internet providers to charge content providers for priority access to customers provided the agreement is “commercially reasonable.”
“To be very direct, the proposal would establish that behaviour harmful to consumers or competition by limiting the openness of the internet will not be permitted,” Tom Wheeler, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, wrote in a blog post.
Wheeler said there has been a lot of misinformation about the notice of proposed rules that will be circulated to commission members today.
Most of the criticism has been directed at a rule that would allow deals between content providers and internet providers on the way traffic is delivered to customers across the connection to the customer’s home, known as the “last mile,” provided the deals are “commercially reasonable.”
“The notice will propose rules that establish a high bar for what is ‘commercially reasonable,'” Wheeler wrote.
The proposed rules would only affect the part of the internet that connects directly to the consumer. That means they don’t apply to a recent deal in which Netflix is paying Comcast for a more direct connection to the part of its network further from the consumer. (Canadian Press)
He added that the test will be whether the deal results in “harm to competition and consumers stemming from abusive market activity.”
The FCC is also looking for other ideas for how to prevent that kind of harm, Wheeler wrote.
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