Republicans members of the House of representatives on Wednesday urged the Federal Communications Commission us to cancel your order of net neutrality since last December, but the President of the Agency defended its decision.
During a hearing of the Subcommittee, several Republicans on the House energy and Commerce Committee criticized the FCC for overstepping his authority when you pass rules that would prohibit broadband providers to block or slow down Web traffic selectively.
The Democratic majority at the FCC has defended the rules required because Internet traditionally worked without gatekeepers, noted Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, a Republican. "They are not simply doing Government gatekeepers in this particular case?"
That is not the goal of net neutrality rules, said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. "Are you saying simply that certain behaviour by companies that control access to the Internet are not consistent with the freedom of the Internet and should not be allowed," he said.
FCC support entrepreneurs and innovators, Genachowski said. The rules will create jobs, Web-based, he added.
"I believe that preserve the transparency and freedom of the Internet is essential for maintaining American leadership in the field of technologies that rely on the Internet, as well as the role of this nation as a beacon of political freedom and freedom of expression of the world," Genachowski said. "And I think a sensible framework of open Internet promotes significant private investments throughout the broadband economy, both by companies creating Internet content, applications and services and those that provide the broadband networks, wireless and wired and infrastructure".
Rules of the FCC's network neutrality, passed by a vote of 3-2, Court challenges by Verizon Communications and MetroPCS Wireless, a mobile carrier. House Republicans suggested that the FCC could end uncertainty on backtracking.
Net Neutrality, the FCC order is "full of ambiguity," said representative Phil Gingrey, Republican of Georgia. "They say keep the Internet free of charge, that we need to regulate it," he said. "To ensure that no one needs permission to innovate, everyone will have to ask the FCC for permission to innovate. To create certainty, as few as three Commissioners can now decide what kinds of trade agreements and traffic management techniques are reasonable ".
More uncertainty of doing business on the Web would exist if the FCC had not passed the net neutrality rules, said representative Anna Eshoo, Democrat of California. At least four broadband carriers or furniture, including Comcast, have sought to limit certain types of Web traffic, since 2005, he said. "There is a record of violations," he said. "You know that these violations are against?"All of us.
The Subcommittee hearing came one day after Rep. Greg Walden, an Oregon Republican and Chairman of the energy and Commerce's Internet Subcommittee of the Committee, said he offered an amendment to a package of U.S. Government's budget that would prohibit the use of funds from the FCC to implement net neutrality rules.
Resolutions introduced in the House and the Senate prohibits the FCC to move forward with the rules. Republican efforts to block the rules difficult to pass the Senate democratic control.
"The FCC's recent attempts to regulate the internet through the imposition of net neutrality is a solution in search of a problem," says Walden. "At the end of that these issues are best determined by network engineers, entrepreneurs and consumers acting in a vigorous market, not subjective politicized Federal Agency judgments."
Grant Gross covers technology and telecommunications policy in the Government of the United States for the IDG News Service. Follow Grant on Twitter at GrantGross. E-mail address is grant_gross@idg.com of Grant.
No comments:
Post a Comment