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Yesterday's 'Net Neutrality' Ruling & FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai's 'Oral Dissent' >>
"FCC ADOPTS STRONG, SUSTAINABLE RULES TO PROTECT THE OPEN INTERNET"
"Rules Will Preserve the Internet as a Platform for Innovation, Free Expression and Economic Growth"
http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-strong-sustainable-rules-protect-open-internet
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"SUMMARY OF FCC COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI’S ORAL STATEMENT DISSENTING FROM THE FCC’S DECISION TO ADOPT PRESIDENT OBAMA’S PLAN TO REGULATE THE INTERNET"
"For twenty years, there’s been a bipartisan consensus in favor of a free and open Internet—one unfettered by government regulation. So why is the FCC turning its back on Internet freedom? It is flip-flopping for one reason and one reason alone. President Obama told it to do so"...
http://www.fcc.gov/document/summary-commissioner-pais-oral-dissent-internet-regulation
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http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-strong-sustainable-rules-protect-open-internet excerpts:
FCC Adopts Strong, Sustainable Rules to Protect the Open Internet
Attachments & Related Documents
Wheeler Statement | Clyburn Statement | Rosenworcel Statement | Pai Statement | O'Rielly Statement
Released: February 26, 2015
This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action. Release of the full text of a Commission order constitutes official action.
See MCI v. FCC. 515 F 2d 385 (D.C. Circ 1974).
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
February 26, 2015
FCC ADOPTS STRONG, SUSTAINABLE RULES TO PROTECT THE OPEN INTERNET
Rules Will Preserve the Internet as a Platform for Innovation, Free Expression and Economic Growth
Washington, D.C. – Ending lingering uncertainty about the future of the Open Internet, the Federal Communications Commission today set sustainable rules of the roads that will protect free expression and innovation on the Internet and promote investment in the nation’s broadband networks.
The FCC has long been committed to protecting and promoting an Internet that nurtures freedom of speech and expression, supports innovation and commerce, and incentivizes expansion and investment by America’s broadband providers. But the agency’s attempts to implement enforceable, sustainable rules to protect the Open Internet have been twice struck down by the courts.
Today, the Commission—once and for all—enacts strong, sustainable rules, grounded in multiple sources of legal authority, to ensure that Americans reap the economic, social, and civic benefits of an Open Internet today and into the future. These new rules are guided by three principles: America’s broadband networks must be fast, fair and open—principles shared by the overwhelming majority of the nearly 4 million commenters who participated in the FCC’s Open Internet proceeding.
Absent action by the FCC, Internet openness is at risk, as recognized by the very court that struck down the FCC’s 2010 Open Internet rules last year in Verizon v. FCC.
Broadband providers have economic incentives that “represent a threat to Internet openness and could act in ways that would ultimately inhibit the speed and extent of future broadband deployment,” as affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The court upheld the Commission’s finding that Internet openness drives a “virtuous cycle” in which innovations at the edges of the network enhance consumer demand, leading to expanded investments in broadband infrastructure that, in turn, spark new innovations at the edge.
However, the court observed that nearly 15 years ago, the Commission constrained its ability to protect against threats to the open Internet by a regulatory classification of broadband that precluded use of statutory protections that historically ensured the openness of telephone networks. The Order finds that the nature of broadband Internet access service has not only changed since that initial classification decision, but that broadband providers have even more incentives to interfere with Internet openness today. To respond to this changed landscape, the new Open Internet Order restores the FCC’s legal authority to fully address threats to openness on today’s networks by following a template for sustainability laid out in the D.C. Circuit Opinion itself, including reclassification of broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act.
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554
Phone: 1-888-225-5322
TTY: 1-888-835-5322
Videophone: 1-844-432-2275
Fax: 1-866-418-0232
FOIA
No Fear Act Data
FCC Digital Strategy
Open Government Directive
Plain Writing Act
2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act
RSS Feeds & Email Updates
Disability Rights
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http://www.fcc.gov/document/summary-commissioner-pais-oral-dissent-internet-regulation excerpts:
Summary of Commissioner Pai's Oral Dissent on Internet Regulation
Released: February 26, 2015
This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action.
Release of the full text of a Commission order constitutes official action.
See MCI v. FCC, 515 F.2d 385 (D.C. Cir. 1974).
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SUMMARY OF FCC COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI’SORAL STATEMENT DISSENTING FROM THE FCC’S DECISION TO ADOPTPRESIDENT OBAMA’S PLAN TO REGULATE THE INTERNET
· For twenty years, there’s been a bipartisan consensus in favor of a free and open Internet—one unfettered by government regulation. So why is the FCC turning its back on Internet freedom? It is flip-flopping for one reason and one reason alone. President Obama told it to do so.
· The Commission’s decision to adopt President Obama’s plan marks a monumental shift toward government control of the Internet. It gives the FCC the power to micromanage virtually every aspect of how the Internet works. It’s an overreach that will let a Washington bureaucracy, and not the American people, decide the future of the online world.
· One facet of that control is rate regulation. For the first time, the FCC will regulate the rates that Internet service providers may charge and will set a price of zero for certain commercial agreements.·The Commission can also outlaw pro-consumer service plans.If you like your current service plan, you should be able to keep your current service plan. The FCC shouldn’t take it away from you.
· Consumers should expect their broadband bills to go up. The plan explicitly opens the door to billions of dollars in new taxes on broadband. One estimate puts the total at $11 billion a year.
· Consumers’ broadband speeds will be slower. Compare the broadband market in the U.S. to that in Europe, where broadband is generally regulated as a public utility. Today, 82% of Americans have access to 25 Mbps broadband speeds. Only 54% of Europeans do. Moreover, in the U.S., average mobile speeds are 30% faster than they are in Western Europe.
· This plan will reduce competition and drive smaller broadband providers out of business. That’s why the plan is opposed by the country’s smallest private competitors and many municipal broadband providers. Monopoly rules from a monopoly era will move us toward a monopoly.
· The Internet is not broken. We do not need President Obama’s plan to “fix it.”
· The plan in front of us today was not formulated at the FCC through a transparent notice-and-comment rulemaking process. As The Wall Street Journal reports, it was developed through “an unusual, secretive effort inside the White House.” Indeed, White House officials, according to the Journal, functioned as a “parallel version of the FCC.” Their work led to the President’s announcement in November of his plan for Internet regulation, a plan which “blindsided” the FCC and “swept aside . . . months of work by [Chairman] Wheeler toward a compromise.”
· The plan has glaring legal flaws that are sure to keep the Commission mired in litigation for a long, long time.
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554
Phone: 1-888-225-5322
TTY: 1-888-835-5322
Videophone: 1-844-432-2275
Fax: 1-866-418-0232
FOIA
No Fear Act Data
FCC Digital Strategy
Open Government Directive
Plain Writing Act
2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Disability Rights
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[ See More:
The Ruling >> http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-strong-sustainable-rules-protect-open-internet
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai's 'Oral Dissent' >> http://www.fcc.gov/document/summary-commissioner-pais-oral-dissent-internet-regulation ]
"FCC ADOPTS STRONG, SUSTAINABLE RULES TO PROTECT THE OPEN INTERNET"
"Rules Will Preserve the Internet as a Platform for Innovation, Free Expression and Economic Growth"
http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-strong-sustainable-rules-protect-open-internet
-----------------
"SUMMARY OF FCC COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI’S ORAL STATEMENT DISSENTING FROM THE FCC’S DECISION TO ADOPT PRESIDENT OBAMA’S PLAN TO REGULATE THE INTERNET"
"For twenty years, there’s been a bipartisan consensus in favor of a free and open Internet—one unfettered by government regulation. So why is the FCC turning its back on Internet freedom? It is flip-flopping for one reason and one reason alone. President Obama told it to do so"...
http://www.fcc.gov/document/summary-commissioner-pais-oral-dissent-internet-regulation
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-strong-sustainable-rules-protect-open-internet excerpts:
FCC Adopts Strong, Sustainable Rules to Protect the Open Internet
Attachments & Related Documents
Wheeler Statement | Clyburn Statement | Rosenworcel Statement | Pai Statement | O'Rielly Statement
Released: February 26, 2015
This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action. Release of the full text of a Commission order constitutes official action.
See MCI v. FCC. 515 F 2d 385 (D.C. Circ 1974).
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
February 26, 2015
FCC ADOPTS STRONG, SUSTAINABLE RULES TO PROTECT THE OPEN INTERNET
Rules Will Preserve the Internet as a Platform for Innovation, Free Expression and Economic Growth
Washington, D.C. – Ending lingering uncertainty about the future of the Open Internet, the Federal Communications Commission today set sustainable rules of the roads that will protect free expression and innovation on the Internet and promote investment in the nation’s broadband networks.
The FCC has long been committed to protecting and promoting an Internet that nurtures freedom of speech and expression, supports innovation and commerce, and incentivizes expansion and investment by America’s broadband providers. But the agency’s attempts to implement enforceable, sustainable rules to protect the Open Internet have been twice struck down by the courts.
Today, the Commission—once and for all—enacts strong, sustainable rules, grounded in multiple sources of legal authority, to ensure that Americans reap the economic, social, and civic benefits of an Open Internet today and into the future. These new rules are guided by three principles: America’s broadband networks must be fast, fair and open—principles shared by the overwhelming majority of the nearly 4 million commenters who participated in the FCC’s Open Internet proceeding.
Absent action by the FCC, Internet openness is at risk, as recognized by the very court that struck down the FCC’s 2010 Open Internet rules last year in Verizon v. FCC.
Broadband providers have economic incentives that “represent a threat to Internet openness and could act in ways that would ultimately inhibit the speed and extent of future broadband deployment,” as affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The court upheld the Commission’s finding that Internet openness drives a “virtuous cycle” in which innovations at the edges of the network enhance consumer demand, leading to expanded investments in broadband infrastructure that, in turn, spark new innovations at the edge.
However, the court observed that nearly 15 years ago, the Commission constrained its ability to protect against threats to the open Internet by a regulatory classification of broadband that precluded use of statutory protections that historically ensured the openness of telephone networks. The Order finds that the nature of broadband Internet access service has not only changed since that initial classification decision, but that broadband providers have even more incentives to interfere with Internet openness today. To respond to this changed landscape, the new Open Internet Order restores the FCC’s legal authority to fully address threats to openness on today’s networks by following a template for sustainability laid out in the D.C. Circuit Opinion itself, including reclassification of broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act.
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554
Phone: 1-888-225-5322
TTY: 1-888-835-5322
Videophone: 1-844-432-2275
Fax: 1-866-418-0232
FOIA
No Fear Act Data
FCC Digital Strategy
Open Government Directive
Plain Writing Act
2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act
RSS Feeds & Email Updates
Disability Rights
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.fcc.gov/document/summary-commissioner-pais-oral-dissent-internet-regulation excerpts:
Summary of Commissioner Pai's Oral Dissent on Internet Regulation
Released: February 26, 2015
This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action.
Release of the full text of a Commission order constitutes official action.
See MCI v. FCC, 515 F.2d 385 (D.C. Cir. 1974).
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SUMMARY OF FCC COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI’SORAL STATEMENT DISSENTING FROM THE FCC’S DECISION TO ADOPTPRESIDENT OBAMA’S PLAN TO REGULATE THE INTERNET
· For twenty years, there’s been a bipartisan consensus in favor of a free and open Internet—one unfettered by government regulation. So why is the FCC turning its back on Internet freedom? It is flip-flopping for one reason and one reason alone. President Obama told it to do so.
· The Commission’s decision to adopt President Obama’s plan marks a monumental shift toward government control of the Internet. It gives the FCC the power to micromanage virtually every aspect of how the Internet works. It’s an overreach that will let a Washington bureaucracy, and not the American people, decide the future of the online world.
· One facet of that control is rate regulation. For the first time, the FCC will regulate the rates that Internet service providers may charge and will set a price of zero for certain commercial agreements.·The Commission can also outlaw pro-consumer service plans.If you like your current service plan, you should be able to keep your current service plan. The FCC shouldn’t take it away from you.
· Consumers should expect their broadband bills to go up. The plan explicitly opens the door to billions of dollars in new taxes on broadband. One estimate puts the total at $11 billion a year.
· Consumers’ broadband speeds will be slower. Compare the broadband market in the U.S. to that in Europe, where broadband is generally regulated as a public utility. Today, 82% of Americans have access to 25 Mbps broadband speeds. Only 54% of Europeans do. Moreover, in the U.S., average mobile speeds are 30% faster than they are in Western Europe.
· This plan will reduce competition and drive smaller broadband providers out of business. That’s why the plan is opposed by the country’s smallest private competitors and many municipal broadband providers. Monopoly rules from a monopoly era will move us toward a monopoly.
· The Internet is not broken. We do not need President Obama’s plan to “fix it.”
· The plan in front of us today was not formulated at the FCC through a transparent notice-and-comment rulemaking process. As The Wall Street Journal reports, it was developed through “an unusual, secretive effort inside the White House.” Indeed, White House officials, according to the Journal, functioned as a “parallel version of the FCC.” Their work led to the President’s announcement in November of his plan for Internet regulation, a plan which “blindsided” the FCC and “swept aside . . . months of work by [Chairman] Wheeler toward a compromise.”
· The plan has glaring legal flaws that are sure to keep the Commission mired in litigation for a long, long time.
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554
Phone: 1-888-225-5322
TTY: 1-888-835-5322
Videophone: 1-844-432-2275
Fax: 1-866-418-0232
FOIA
No Fear Act Data
FCC Digital Strategy
Open Government Directive
Plain Writing Act
2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Disability Rights
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ See More:
The Ruling >> http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-strong-sustainable-rules-protect-open-internet
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai's 'Oral Dissent' >> http://www.fcc.gov/document/summary-commissioner-pais-oral-dissent-internet-regulation ]
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