FCC 15-24: The Federal Communication Commission

The primary piece of legislation used to regulate telecom providers is the Telecommunication Act of 1996. This paper will examine the characteristics, and point out similarities, of telecommunications providers and information services such as the internet. Additionally, regulation of telecommunications and the lack of regulation for information services will be addressed. Finally, recommendations for potential ways to regulate information services, the potential legal ramifications of such regulation, and the technical considerations regarding the recommendations will be identified.

Throughout the span of 2008-2010, another net neutrality bill was introduced in congress regarding Comcast blocking files but, Comcast sued the FCC saying that the FCC has no authority over their internet service. . The FCC attempted to apply a cease and desist order against Comcast but eventually they canceled it. The outcome of this dispute created an Open Internet Order by Democrat Julius Genachowski (Reardon, 2015). This is very significant because this is what made the net neutrality rules official in the FCC regulation. This order explains that people can access content to the Internet without experiencing blocking or slowing down. In addition, broadband providers have to be clear about their management networks and practices.

I am Aric See and I am a senior in the Weidner School of Inquiry at Plymouth High School in Plymouth Indiana. Net Neutrality is a very important issue facing the United States, with many Republican members of Congress opposing the FCC’s Open Internet Order and the reclassifying of broadband to Telecommunication Services from Information Services. The members of the GOP who are completely against the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) reclassification, and attempts to keep the internet free, give many reasons that are simply not true, such as the FCC’s regulations will destroy the free nature of the internet. Because of the attempts by Congressmen with the GOP to fight the regulations, many Americans, especially small business owners that use the web as a base, feel that their equality and freedoms on the internet will be

There are developmental issues that surround Title 2 and the internet. Does a regulated system generated what is necessary to stimulate the economy and the competition? The research that was released by the FCC and the Electronic Frontier Society has provided great insight into the issue. Net Neutrality is a trident of an issue; it cannot be fully encompassed by one of the following disciplines. Economics, Technological and Political science are the main three that encompass what Net neutrality has become. Technology is the medium that created this problem, however our economy is built on to it. We are in the New Economic Era and we need regulatory oversight. The consumer and innovators are at odds with internet service providers; there has to be middle ground to solving the issue.

Facts: The FCC, respondent, established The Open Internet Order in 2010, which put into place new rules regarding network neutrality. The order made it so broadband service providers had to be transparent with consumers, and could not practice anti-blocking, or discrimination with their services. The first order details that providers must “publicly disclose accurate information regarding the network management practices, performances, and commercial terms of [their] broadband Internet access.” The second order prohibits “block[ing] lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices, subject to reasonable network management,” “applications that compete with the provider’s voice or video telephony services, subject to reasonable

Ever since the internet was made mainstream in 1993 with the launch of the NCSA Mosaic GUI Browsers, it has become an ever increasing necessity in the government, businesses, and at home. As the internet became more normalized, ISPs, or Internet Service Providers, gained momentum and became what we know today as Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc. Now that the internet is sourced from just a few major corporations, they are trying to restrict internet usage behind a paywall, stealing money from customers unnecessarily.

The concept of network neutrality (more commonly referred to as net neutrality) has been a fixture of debates over United States telecommunications policy throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century. Based upon the principle that internet access should not be altered or restricted by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) one chooses to use, it has come to represent the hopes of those who believe that the internet still has the potential to radically transform the way in which we interact with both people and information, in the face of the commercial interests of ISPs, who argue that in order to sustain a competitive marketplace for internet provision, they must be allowed to differentiate their services. Whilst this debate has

Throughout the last decade, the idea of Net Neutrality has been the topic of many debates. Net Neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers should not be allowed to block their users from any content regardless of its source. The Debate is still continuing in 2017 with the F.C.C planning to repeal Net Neutrality and allow internet providers to completely regulate what their users can see and charge the users extra for “luxuries” such as social media, messaging, email, and music. There are two sides of this argument, one side believes that Net Neutrality should be taken away, while others believe that it is unfair for the Internet providers to have the right to take away the access to any content. Internet providers should not be allowed to control what content one can view when surfing the internet.

The emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web brought upon a medium of communication with a range of opportunities for the world. However, this medium is, in due course, subject to the control of a few major companies. The enigma of information flow is the central concern of net neutrality. Consumers, competition and network owners would benefit directly from the regulation of network neutrality because it would provide a positive impact to those parties as well as provide equality.

Regulation of the Internet is a volatile topic. One reason comes from the very nature of the Internet.  While not entirely different from

Net neutrality is an issue that has gained traction within the past few years. The reading brought to light the deeper, issues associated with the information services and wired infrastructure. The debate at its core is about ISPs. Due to issues involved with ISPs invoking price discrimination against media providers, issues have arisen about data caps, bit-torrent throttling, and the classification structure. While changes can be made to the law to negate these unethical practices, laws need to be well thought out to include the current issues and issues that may arise within the foreseeable future. One could state that no isp’s shall require data providers to pay a higher fee for the ‘fast lane’. However, then the isp’s could require their

Around the world, several CEO’s of major tech industries are supporting the idea of keeping the internet free and provide access to information without any barriers. Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted a Q n A in which he mentioned his full support to Net Neutrality. His idea of providing the internet to the world using his initiative internet.org will help several under developed and developing parts of the world to get access to basic internet services and the content it provides. According to him the content should not be discriminated or limited by internet service providers like AT&T and Verizon. In countries where there’s no internet at all, it would be better to have some internet services so that there’s an establishment of connectivity rather than no internet. This is the reason the initiative of internet.org is important and can co-exist with net neutrality. He also believes that net

Clearly, this only decades-old invention has had the most profound impact on human life since penicillin, but already people want to abuse the internet's power for personal gain. Amoral Internet Service Providers such as Comcast and Time Warner have and likely will continue to restrict the internet for monetary or otherwise self-preserving gains. The most recent threat to the internet's capabilities is the United States Federal Communications Commission’s Chairman Tom Wheeler's alleged proposal that will

These days the internet has become an essential part to living for almost everyone but one of the controversial topics that people bring up is that whether or not the government should regulate information on the internet. Both sides have valid points which form a reasonable argument. Some people would say that they need to because of the dangers lurking around in the cyber world but the reasons for why the government shouldn’t regulate the Internet outnumber the reasons for why they should. The federal government should not regulate or censor information on the internet because doing so violates the first amendment and citizen’s right to privacy, degrades the educational value of the web, prevents the promotion and facilitation of

In the early 1990’s when the internet was still new there were no regulations on how Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) could operate their broadband networks. Most being major telecommunications companies followed the same regulations that applied to land line telephones laid out by the Federal Communications Commision. Basically Telecoms could not block, slow, or inhibit in anyway the connection from one caller to another – neutrality. And generally since then the internet has been following the same guidelines. But fast forward to the internet of 2014, and you’ll find a very different place. There is so much money to be made on the internet of today. ISPs and companies are always looking to make a profit in some way. But where does that leave the user?