09-27-2014, 01:43 PM
Following intense debate and an overwhelming public comment response (3.7 million comments to the FCC), two Democrat commissioners have reversed field and no longer support "Fast Lanes" for certain content providers.
We're back to one speed for all.
A win for the consumer. Maybe this will compel providers to beef up overall performance of internet connections.
We're back to one speed for all.
Quote:Newest Critics Of FCC’s Net Neutrality Plan: The FCC Commissioners Who Voted For It
The controversial and problematic current suggestion for net neutrality — a two-tiered, “fast lane†approach to the rule — was approved in the FCC in May on a 3-2, strict party-line vote. Since then, however, the proposal has gotten seemingly more unpopular by the day. Congress hates it. The internet hates it. Nearly all of the record-smashing 3.7 million comments to the FCC hate it. But the newest, and most meaningful, opposition might have just popped up from an unexpected source: two of the three FCC commissioners who voted for it.
http://consumerist.com/2014/09/25/newest...ed-for-it/
A win for the consumer. Maybe this will compel providers to beef up overall performance of internet connections.