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Wed Sep 17, 2014, 05:08 AM Sep 2014

FCC chief Wheeler presses activists, industry on net neutrality for mobile providers

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/fcc-chief-wheeler-presses-activists-industry-on-net-neutrality-for-mobile-providers/



Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on oversight of the FCC on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 20, 2014.

FCC chief Wheeler presses activists, industry on net neutrality for mobile providers
Reuters
16 Sep 2014

U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler urged consumer advocates and wireless industry representatives on Tuesday to address how wireless carriers might be allowed to “reasonably manage” their Internet networks.

The issue is at the heart of a debate over whether the FCC should undo exemptions applied to mobile carriers as it rewrites Internet traffic regulations, after an appeals court rejected its 2010 rules in January.

Consumer advocates and wireless industry experts discussed the question of parity between wireless and wireline networks at one of several roundtables called by Wheeler to get “from heat to light” on so-called net neutrality rules.

Public interest groups and web companies, including Google Inc and Facebook Inc, say the FCC should impose similar antidiscrimination rules for wireless companies and wireline ISPs.
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