Fcc decision on net neutrality

Even if the customer can't prove a net neutrality violation, the complaint process itself can help customers pressure their Internet providers. Customers we interviewed for a previous story complained about allegedly unfair billing practices and got price breaks from Comcast and Time Warner Cable as a result. While the FCC already accepted complaints about other topics, the addition of net neutrality complaints seems to have inspired many of the new filings. … [Read more...] about FCC has already gotten 2,000 “net neutrality” complaints

Some businesses are forced to move to other towns for lack of better broadband, he said. Wheeler described one person who pays $316 a month "for a collage of services that includes two mobile hotspots," while living less than a mile from a gigabit network. One woman in the FCC's audience has to drive her son 12 miles to a church where he can access Internet service fast enough to do schoolwork, he said. These people are "condemned to second-rate broadband." … [Read more...] about FCC overturns state laws that protect ISPs from local competition

But the situation isn't as clear-cut as that, it may turn out. Wheeler believes a dissent written by a judge at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit gave the FCC some room to step between states and municipalities on this issue. "The Commission will look for opportunities to enhance Internet access competition," Wheeler said in a statement. "One obvious candidate for close examination was raised in Judge Silberman’s separate opinion, namely legal restrictions on the ability of cities and towns to offer broadband services to consumers in their communities." … [Read more...] about FCC thinks it can overturn state laws that restrict public broadband