Operators, Legislators, Regulators Battle Over Title Ⅱ

摘要

The FCC appears to be headed toward a showdown with cable companies-and some members of Congress-over Title Ⅱ regulations. Those Internet service providers aren't being especially subtle about their preferences, given how hard they're now pushing back against FCC chairman Tom Wheeler's plan to vote on new network neutrality rules in February, which he signaled at last week's Consumer Electronics Show. Wheeler did not come out and say definitively that he would propose re-classifying ISPs under some Title Ⅱ common carrier regulations as a way to prevent online blocking or discrimination, but he stopped just short of doing so, and noted that he had an "a-ha" moment when he considered how much wireless companies had flourished over the past two decades under Title Ⅱ.