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FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

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Re: FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

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    Using this authority, I am submitting to my colleagues the strongest
    open internet protections ever proposed by the FCC. These enforceable,
    bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and 
    throttling of lawful content and services. I propose to fully 
    apply—for the first time ever—those bright-line rules to mobile 
    broadband. My proposal assures the rights of internet users to go
    where they want, when they want, and the rights of innovators to 
    introduce new products without asking anyone’s permission.
I can't believe I'm reading those words!

Re: FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

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No last mile unbundling: does it mean that every operator has to deploy its own cable from street to home?

Looks like the opposite of that. Every operator will be able to use the single connection from exchange to home.

"Local loop unbundling (LLU or LLUB) is the regulatory process of allowing multiple telecommunications operators to use connections from the telephone exchange to the customer's premises."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling

Re: FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

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post #7
post #4

No last mile unbundling: does it mean that every operator has to deploy its own cable from street to home?

Looks like the opposite of that. Every operator will be able to use the single connection from exchange to home. "Local loop unbundling (LLU or LLUB) is the regulatory process of allowing multiple telecommunications operators to use connections from the telephone exchange to the customer's premises." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling

So if there is none of that...

Re: FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

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"there will be no rate regulation, no tariffs, no last-mile unbundling" Translation?

Title II as written requires that rates be filed with the FCC and approved by the FCC (tariffs & rate regulation, respectively). Last-mile unbundling would force the people who currently run lines into your house to let other providers sell services over those lines.

These regulations that are part of the law are all going to be removed as part of a process called "forebearance", where the FCC can basically not enforce those parts if they feel it would be contrary to their overarching goal of increased broadband adoption in the country.

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