
The US Federal Communications Agency (FCC) has approved a plan proposed by agency chairman Tom Wheeler. For the continuation of the law on the abolition of network neutrality, three members of the FCC ad hoc commission voted, among them Tom Wheeler himself. Only two participants opposed it. Now, Wheeler’s plan has gone into a public review stage that will last about four months.
In mid-October, the FCC will again have to vote for the proposal package, which by this time will be finalized based on comments and comments on it.
The principle of net neutrality was introduced by the FCC in 2010. This concept allows to ensure the equality of all services when working with traffic providers, according to him, all traffic should be allowed to pass at the same maximum speed, regardless of its source.
Many US providers have long advocated the abolition of network neutrality, among them for example Verizon, AT & T, and others. They require the FCC to charge additional traffic for individual services.
In turn, a large number of innovative companies advocate the preservation of the principles of network neutrality. At the beginning of May, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo and many other companies turned to the FCC with a letter calling the removal of net neutrality a deadly threat to the entire Internet, and their views were supported in the White House.