The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved three votes to two rules, which primarily prohibits internet providers slow or block certain content online legal services .
The regulation even prohibit providers sell faster at some of the online service connection. For example, Netflix or YouTube may not pay companies that provide network access for users faster access to content . That is the principle known as “internet neutrality”.
It is a new attempt by the FCC to ensure the “neutrality” of the Internet, a principle which caused controversy in the United States and other countries and aims ensure equal access to internet at all .
A previous regulation of the Commission was annulled a year ago for justice through an action for a major telecommunications groups Verizon, and the new project also pushed him to intense political debate in Washington.
The rules would put the Internet in the same regulatory environment as the phone, banning commercial “unjust or unreasonable” practices of suppliers. This is the most important regulatory change in nearly two decades and the goal is to prevent suppliers become slow or block Internet traffic or create fast payment gateways in the network .
“Internet is the ultimate tool of freedom of expression” and “is very important to allow providers (services) broadband set the rules,” he argued before the vote the chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler.
One of the two commissioners who opposed the project, Ajit Pai, criticized the measure, evoking “a monumental shift to government control of the internet”.
Online services as Netflix, Twitter and Yelp supported the measures, while internet providers like AT & T, Verizon or Comcast found them very hard and threatened to bring new remedies
Consumer advocates welcomed the new regulations. and consider it a victory for small businesses who fear pay dues for moving the content they have on the network .
The net neutrality means that portals and videos loaded at the same speed. This means that users no longer will be more inclined to watch a particular program rather than Amazon Prime Netflix because Amazon has an agreement with the ISP to load faster data.
Opponents, including many Republican lawmakers say the FCC plan is excessive government intrusion that could eventually raise the cost to consumers and discourage investment in the sector .
The Republican Michael Powell, former head of the commission and now president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, warned that consumers immediately “feel the burden of new taxes and rising costs, and possibly have to wait longer to have faster and innovative networks since investment returns slow for oversight of the bureaucracy “.
For years, providers agreed not to pick winners and losers traffic on the network because they did not want to encourage regulators to intervene and they said that consumers demanded .
But that attitude began to change around 2005, when Netflix YouTube appeared and became popular. Video on demand is widespread and evidence began to emerge that some suppliers were manipulating traffic without informing consumers.
In 2010 the Commission imposed rules open internet, but now try to remove an ambiguity legal not to classify all internet as “information service” but “telecommunications service” subject to the Communications Act of 1934. This will significantly increase the power of regulators on industry to require suppliers to act in the public interest and have the authority to impose fines on firms that apply “unreasonable” trade practices.
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