New legislation could lead to ISP throttling ban

New legislation could lead to ISP throttling ban-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13 2008, @11:25PM

An anonymous reader writes "BetaNews says: http://www.betanews.com/article/New_legislation_could_lead_to_ISP_throttling_ban/1202944440 Comcast's response yesterday to its public thrashing by the FCC may have had a second, more important, purpose: A prominent Congressman has introduced legislation paving the way for a ban on Internet throttling. In the midst of an already overflowing legislative calendar, Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), who chairs the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, introduced a bill yesterday whose end result could be the illegalization of throttling of bandwidth to certain customers by Internet service providers. But the bill, tentatively entitled the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008, would not actually declare throttling illegal specifically. Instead, it would call upon the Federal Communications Commission to hold a hearing to determine whether or not throttling is a bad thing, and whether it has the right to take action to stop it."
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