Legal Issues: Courts, Commission, and Congress Still Struggling with Net Neutrality

Abstract

Broadband users are pushing their service providers so that the providers have long advocated for the ability to create different tiers of bandwidth service and to charge content providers differing fees depending on either the nature of the content – e.g. the more bandwidth intensive the content, the higher the fee – or for beneficial treatment–e.g. content providers could pay extra for higher speed. Such is the core of the continuing net neutrality debate over whether and how Internet bandwidth access should be regulated, a debate that is now going into its second decade. The debate may not be ending anytime soon given the level of complex and competing legal, policy and political considerations

Keywords: Net neutrality, broadband, internet, content, Telecommunications Act, Open Internet Order