FCC Announces Net Neutrality Repeal Goes Into Effect June 11, 2018

The Federal Communications Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with the Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Declaratory Ruling, Report and Order, and Order (Order)’s transparency rule. This document is consistent with the Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a notice in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of the refinements to the transparency rule, the delayed amendatory instructions revising the Commission’s rules consistent with the Order, and the Order, which among other things restore the classification of broadband Internet access service as an information service, reinstate the private mobile service classification of mobile broadband Internet access service, and eliminate the conduct rules imposed by the Title II Order. The Restoring Internet Freedom will become effective June 11, 2018.