FCC rescinds claim that AT&T and Verizon violated net neutrality

[Jimbo101]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/fcc-rescinds-claim-that-att-and-verizon-violated-net-neutrality/

Republican Ajit Pai halts Wheeler's net neutrality investigation of zero-rating.

The Federal Communications Commission's new Republican leadership has rescinded a determination that AT&T and Verizon Wireless violated net neutrality rules with paid data cap exemptions. The FCC also rescinded several other Wheeler-era reports and actions.

The FCC released its report on the data cap exemptions (aka "zero-rating&quot in the final days of Democrat Tom Wheeler's chairmanship. Because new Chairman Ajit Pai opposed the investigation, the FCC has now formally closed the proceeding

The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau sent letters to AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile USA notifying the carriers "that the Bureau has closed this inquiry. Any conclusions, preliminary or otherwise, expressed during the course of the inquiry will have no legal or other meaning or effect going forward." The FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau also sent a letter to Comcast closing an inquiry into the company's Stream TV cable service, which does not count against data caps.

The FCC issued an order that "sets aside and rescinds" the Wheeler-era report on zero-rating. All "guidance, determinations, and conclusions" from that report are rescinded, and it will have no legal bearing on FCC proceedings going forward, the order said.

[angstlessk]

1. I want to see how this works

[Ohioblue22]

2. remember when we used to hear here about how hillary was no better

different than trump ..... good times.....

[demmiblue]

4. No, I don't remember that.

Nice try, though!

Here is a cookie for your troubles:

[pinboy3niner]

3. And so it begins

[SaschaHM]

5. I love how Trump's "populist" movement..

has literally turned the Government into a Corporate free for all. Get ready for even more arbitrary data caps so that cable companies can take more money out of your pockets.