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FCC seeks comment on broadband reclassification

Marguerite Reardon CNET News | June 17, 2010 12:04 PM PDT

Summary

The FCC has taken the first step toward figuring out how it's going to regulate broadband after losing an important legal battle earlier this year.

The Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step toward figuring out how it's going to regulate broadband after losing an important legal battle earlier this year.

At an open meeting Thursday, the FCC voted to open a proceeding that seeks comment on three options for redefining the FCC's role in regulating broadband. The FCC is asking for comments on these new proposals, which it hopes will put it on firmer legal footing, after a federal appeals court ruled in April that the agency did not have authority to sanction Comcast for violating Net neutrality principles. Comcast had been caught throttling BitTorrent transfers on its network.

One of the three choices that the public will comment on includes, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's "third way" proposal for redefining broadband traffic, which would allow the commission to change the classification of broadband services from a lightly regulated Title I Information Service to a more vigorously regulated Title II Telecommunications service. Broadband service providers, such as AT&T and Verizon Communications, are against the "third way" proposal.

For more of this story, read FCC seeks comment on broadband reclassification on CNET News.

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  • RE: FCC seeks comment on broadband reclassification
    Looks like my civics classes were all wrong -- I thought that agencies such as the FCC were supposed to carry out laws passed by Congress, not run around like mini-caudillos "redefining [their] role" and thumbing their noses at federal appeals court. Welcome to Ameribama.
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    Vesicant
    17th Jun 2010
  • RE: FCC seeks comment on broadband reclassification
    @Vesicant God, you're one of those Faux News watching morons that God must've sent merely to make us all want to kill each other aren't you? Ameribama? F*ck you you trolling little racist sh*t.
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    midgarddragon@...
    17th Jun 2010
  • RE: FCC seeks comment on broadband reclassification
    @midgarddragon@... Okay, sure, it wasn't all that cool to try and blame things on Obama but you seriously need to calm down.
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    Pete "athynz" Athens
    18th Jun 2010
  • RE: FCC seeks comment on broadband reclassification
    @Vesicant and midgarddragon@...

    Wow . . .

    Got a couple little kids here.

    One of them indirectly blames Obama for being the cause of the FCC's behavior.

    The other accuses somebody who, in all likelihood, is not a racist of any sort, of being a racist.

    Both of you: Grow up, and get off of your political high horses. The only politics going on here are the FCC and the courts. No need to drag this into Republican/Democrat stereotypes.
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    CobraA1
    17th Jun 2010
  • RE: FCC seeks comment on broadband reclassification
    "The kings make us drunk with their fumes,
    Peace among ourselves, war to the tyrants!"
    - The International, Socialist Anthem

    Socialism has killed millions, all in the name of the perfect worker's paradise. National Socialism, Communism, socialism, lots of dead people. It all starts with control of the media.
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    tburzio
    17th Jun 2010
  • RE: FCC seeks comment on broadband reclassification
    @tburzio Yep, this whole Comcast not telling me what I can and can't download by slowing my connection down whenever I want to use Bit Torrent sure reeks of Socialism! If by Socialism you mean common sense.
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    midgarddragon@...
    17th Jun 2010
  • RE: FCC seeks comment on broadband reclassification
    @midgarddragon@... No it doesn't reek of socialism as much as it reeks of a company setting themselves up as a moral authority... if one pays for a certain bandwidth then one ought to get that bandwidth no matter if one is downloading a movie from iTunes, something from bittorrent, playing an online game, or streaming audio/ video.
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    Pete "athynz" Athens
    18th Jun 2010
  • Third way all the way!
    Reclassification is what EVERY public hearing has been saying since telco problems arose.
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    Hobyx
    18th Jun 2010
  • RE: FCC seeks comment on broadband reclassification
    Maybe I'm misunderstanding your post. How does one "pay for a certain bandwidth" if everyone pays the same price? Since there are costs associated with providing bandwidth, it's not any different than buying ice cream--two scoops costs more than one.
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    cliff@...
    18th Jun 2010
  • with comcast you pay different amounts for the amount of data you use....
    @cliff@... If you go over on their lower level they force you to upgrade or loose your internet so yes you do pay for your bandwidth.
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    dougogd@...
    21st Jun 2010
  • RE: FCC seeks comment on broadband reclassification
    @cliff@... First, bandwidth does not cost nearly as much as it once did.
    Second, and more importantly, Comcast lied. They claimed they were not capping. Then it was proven they were.
    Third, these caps are about the cable companies trying to keep people from downloading movies from the competition, in hopes they will pay for rentals through their "On Demand" or "Pay-Per-Views".

    Sadly, I will be moving to an area that seems to be Comcastic. Grrr. I guess I'll have to go the DSL route again. And, then, I hear that is Qwest. I'm not so thrilled by what I've heard about them, either.

    I'm not one who is big on regulations; but, I actually welcome this one, mostly because I hate the cable companies for whining to Congress in the 80's about satellite companies giving HBO/ShoTime/TMC/Cinemax for free. So, now we have to pay for that, no matter what type of service we have. (Of course, that's not to say once satellite killed off cable, we wouldn't pay twice as much. But, for the interim, we can gripe about having to pay for those services).
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    LegendsOfBatman
    21st Jun 2010
  • Control of media in times of war?
    Typically, one of the first objectives during wartime is to gain control of the media. It allows forces to disseminate the information they want and prevent that which they don't want. They can control who receives information and who doesn't, the quality of said information and the cost. Considering that the FCC represents the government, when was the last time the government effectively managed anything?

    So, the FCC is now moving to gain control of a world-wide media. To permit them to reclassify the Internet as a telecommunication service from an information service is to hand them the keys to the Internet.

    The government is moving to centralize everything, which will give them even more control over us. I, too, am not big on regulations, and this is simply another example of how We The People are going to be further subjected to government controls and regulations.

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    21st Jun 2010
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