FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler (Photo : Reuters)
New rules will be implemented to tighten regulations of the United States broadband providers are not very invasive but only needed to defend the consuming public's interest and openness on the web. This was the statement given by the Chairman of the US Telecommunications watchdog at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Some of the cable and telecoms firms have exaggerated their complaints about the new rules stating that the move will harm their innovation on the internet, explained the head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Tom Wheeler, Reuters reported.
The FCC order that was passed on Feb. 26 having a 3-2 vote with a strong support on President Barack Obama and Wheeler, dealt with several outburst from internet providers, Congressional Republican and former FCC Chairman Michael Powell.
Wheeler responded with his original idea of implementing "net neutrality" which was already formed when he first handled the FCC office 15 months ago. He was in favor of regulation under brief provision, Section 706, of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
He is not in favor of it today due to its wordings, the older law states that all actions by "common carriers" of communication services be judged by the FCC as just and reasonable within the public's interest but will require the move by an operator like AT&T or a content provider such at Google or Twitter for it to be commercially reasonable, according to EE Times.
That means reasonable for the network provider, rather than what is reasonable for the consumer and the innovator. If that's the test, it's the wrong question and the wrong answer," Wheeler explained.
