FCC’s Milkman Keynoting FSF Net Neutrality Seminar

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Despite dropping temperatures, the network neutrality debate continues to heat up as the FCC prepares to re-craft new rules by order of the court.

The Free State Foundation, no fan of a possible Title II common carrier regulation approach to that effort, is holding a policy seminar Nov. 14—"Thinking the Unthinkable: Imposing the 'Utility Model' on Internet Providers"—featuring FCC chief of staff Ruth Milkman as the keynote speaker.

The FCC is at least thinking about that unthinkable. FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has signaled repeatedly that Title II is on the table. Those include hybrid approaches that would 1) use Title II as an insurance policy of sorts if the court were to throw out rules based on the FCC's Sec. 706 mandate to deploy broadband and 2) reclassify the ISP/edge provider access relationship under Title II and leave the last-mile consumer service under 706.

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John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.