Pickering Outlines FCC’s Net-Neutrality Role

PICKERING OUTLINES FCC'S NET NEUTRALITY ROLE
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss), who is helping to craft a new telecommunications bill, indicated Thursday that network neutrality mandates would take effect depending on the outcome of a Federal Communications Commission inquiry on the openness of cable and other broadband networks. Rep Pickering, who is working with leaders of the House Commerce Committee, said the bill would likely clarify that the FCC has authority to enforce network-neutrality principles it enunciated last August. At some point, he added, the FCC would need to study the market to determine whether broadband-access providers were harming competitors through discriminatory practices -- a regulatory exercise that might occur without a working definition of network neutrality.
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