FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION: Preserving the Open Internet

This Report and Orderestablishes protections for broadbandservice to preserve and reinforceInternet freedom and openness. TheCommission adopts three basicprotections that are grounded in broadlyaccepted Internet norms, as well as ourown prior decisions. First, transparency:fixed and mobile broadband providersmust disclose the network managementpractices, performance characteristics,and commercial terms of theirbroadband services. Second, noblocking: fixed broadband providersmay not block lawful content,applications, services, or non-harmfuldevices; mobile broadband providersmay not block lawful Web sites, or blockapplications that compete with theirvoice or video telephony services.Third, no unreasonable discrimination:fixed broadband providers may notunreasonably discriminate intransmitting lawful network traffic.These rules, applied with thecomplementary principle of reasonablenetwork management, ensure that...
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION: Preserving the Open Internet