Ajit Pai
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission
is moving quickly to replace the Obama administration’s landmark net
neutrality rules and wants internet service providers to voluntarily
agree to maintain an open internet, three sources briefed on the meeting
said Thursday.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump, met on Tuesday with major telecommunications trade groups to discuss his preliminary plan to reverse the rules, the sources said.
The FCC declined to comment but Pai previously said he is committed to ensuring an open internet but feels net neutrality was a mistake.
The rules approved by the FCC under Democratic President Barack Obama in early 2015 prohibited broadband providers from giving or selling access to speedy internet, essentially a “fast lane”, to certain internet services over others. As part of that change, the FCC reclassified internet service providers much like utilities.
Pai wants to overturn that reclassification, but wants internet providers to voluntarily agree to not obstruct or slow consumer access to web content, two officials said late Tuesday.
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Source: The Huffington Post
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