3.7 Million Comments Later, Here's Where Net Neutrality Stands

The window for the public to weigh in on how federal rule-makers should treat Internet traffic is closed, after a record 3.7 million comments arrived at the Federal Communications. The Sunlight Foundation analyzed the first 800,000 and found that fewer than 1 percent were opposed to network neutrality enforcement. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has said that he hopes the FCC will approve a proposal before the end of 2014, which gives the commission a few more months to sift through the comments, meet with stakeholders and reconvene on this issue. In the meantime, there's plenty of reading the tea leaves of Wheeler's public comments and moves. One issue that's come up in this interim period is how to treat mobile connections.