Several lawsuits against U.S. principles of net neutrality

Several lawsuits against U.S. principles of net neutrality

Free Press, other media organizations and the telecommunications company Verizon to go to court against the guidelines of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) before, with the open Internet should be guaranteed. One side of the net neutrality principles do not go far enough. "Meeting the final rules contain some safeguards for consumers, but not to keep the promise of openness in mobile Internet access," said Matt Wood by Free Press. Mobile operators would not be so prevented from blocking innovative applications. There was no justification to distinguish between landline and mobile Internet, especially since the wireless online access to more and more widespread.

Similarly, the organizations argue Media Mobilizing Project and Access Humboldt and the Mountain Area Information Network, which appear to FCC regulations also too narrow. Do not guaranteed "the strong base, the need truly open, innovative networks," stated Sean McLaughlin of Access Humboldt.

Verizon is the opposite view that telecom companies would be affected too much spoon-fed. It is fully committed to the open Internet, said a legal expert with the U.S. network operator. The U.S. regulatory authority may impose access and service providers and the Internet as such but "potentially large and unnecessary regulations". This is inconsistent with the statutes of the FCC, unsettle the communications industry, inventors, investors and consumers. In the case before the Court of Appeals in Washington leads from Verizon that the agency had exceeded its legal expertise with an attempt to prevent access providers working to distinguish between similar content sources. The court has already once rejected by the FCC on net neutrality regulations in their place.

The U.S. government had the controversial principles, which at 20 November will come into force in mid-September published in the Federal Register and thus paved the way for lawsuits on the other hand free. Verizon and the mobile operator MetroPCS had earlier this year complained about the government regulations, but what the judge rejected as premature. MetroPCS has its action has not yet been resubmitted.

The FCC wants to require providers not to hinder the spread of "lawful" content, applications and services in their lines and the connecting terminals. She wants to ban "inappropriate to distinguish" between data packets during the transfer legitimate network traffic. Special wide-added services and mobile telephony initially remain largely exempt from regulation. An FCC spokesman, said that the rules would bring predictability to the economy and encouraged innovation investments, respectively. The Authority will tackle any effort, the openness of the Internet and the related economic power, rigorous prevention.