FCC Throws Down Gauntlet Over Net Neutrality
The FCC chairman argues that an open Internet is a must for innovation No less than the open freedom of the Internet is at stake in the war over net neutrality. Now FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has waded into the fray with two new proposals and a clear message: an open and nondiscriminatory Internet is a must for the future. That stance emerged today in Genachowski's address at the Brookings Institute in Washington. He laid out problems such as the limited competition among ISPs, the economic incentives for ISPs to sell bundled phone and TV service with Internet, and the burden of growing Internet traffic that puts pressure back on ISPs. But the FCC chairman also sought to address ongoing problems where ISPs degrade or clamp down on certain popular services that use heavy bandwidth to stream or share videos, music and other files. The standout example of this comes from Comcast