Network neutrality rules let FCC police future ISP conduct

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The Federal Communications Commission’s new network neutrality rules allow the agency to police future network management practices and business models rolled out by broadband providers, raising concerns among critics that an activist commission will inject itself into ISP board rooms.

The so-called future conduct standard in the FCC’s new rules leave questions about what ISP practices the agency will allow, critics say. Following the FCC’s publication of the new rules, the future conduct standard has raised perhaps the most objections, other than complaints about the agency’s decision to reclassify broadband as a regulated, common-carrier service. The future conduct standard will create questions about investing in the broadband market, Sen Deb Fischer (R-NE) said. “How can any business that’s trying to innovate have any kind of certainty that they’re not going to be regulated by the FCC under what I view as a very vague rule?” she said.


Network neutrality rules let FCC police future ISP conduct