Wheeler followed the advice of a D.C. federal court in proposing to reconfigure the old Open Internet order's ban on unreasonable discrimination into an allowance for commercially reasonable discrimination, given that the court threw out that ban because smacked too much of applying common carrier regs to Internet access service, which the FCC defines as an information service not subject to mandatory access.
MLB sees too much downside to the approach. "We urge the Commission to prohibit Broadband ISPs from charging Internet content distributors ("Edge Providers") for faster or otherwise preferential delivery of content to American consumers.
Currently the FCC's no-unreasonable discrimination and no-blocking rules don't apply, except to Comcast, which agreed to abide by them as part of the NBCU merger.
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MLB sees too much downside to the approach. "We urge the Commission to prohibit Broadband ISPs from charging Internet content distributors ("Edge Providers") for faster or otherwise preferential delivery of content to American consumers.
Currently the FCC's no-unreasonable discrimination and no-blocking rules don't apply, except to Comcast, which agreed to abide by them as part of the NBCU merger.
multichannel.com
