[1st-mile-nm] Fwd: FCC Considers Alternative Plans for Net Traffic Rules

[Marianne Granoff]

FYI.  From another list.

>FCC Considers Alternative Plans for Net Traffic Rules
>      Federal Communications Commission officials have begun 
> discussing alternative plans for regulating Internet-traffic 
> management if a federal appeals court rules this spring that the 
> agency doesn't have authority to control the way phone and cable 
> companies handle traffic on their broadband networks. The 
> discussions began less than a week after a U.S. Court of Appeals 
> for the D.C. Circuit panel sharply questioned the FCC's 
> jurisdiction in reprimanding Comcast Corp. two years ago when the 
> cable company deliberately slowed some subscribers' web traffic.
>      Read 
> more: 
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703657604575005323285076144.html
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