Deal on Net Neutrality in US Senate Elusive: Aides

DEAL ON NET NEUTRALITY IN US SENATE ELUSIVE: AIDES
[SOURCE: Reuters]
The Senate Commerce Committee so far has been unable to reach a compromise on Internet network neutrality, a week before the panel is supposed to vote on it as part of a broader communications reform bill, Senate aides said on Monday. Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) proposed on May 1 studying the issue. The top Democrat on the panel, Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, and others have pressed for more extensive protections. One possible compromise on Net neutrality could be adopting language approved last week by the House of Representatives bill, according to one committee aide. It gave the Federal Communications Commission the authority to enforce principles the agency adopted last year. Those principles called on broadband providers to provide consumers unfettered access to Internet content and permit them to use whatever legal applications and services that are available.
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