Last September, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski laid out his plans for the Internet and Net Neutrality. They work off of the existing principles and adds a few more that the Chairman wanted.
The existing principles can be summarized this way: Network operators cannot prevent users from accessing lawful Internet content, applications, and services of their choice, nor can they prohibit users from attaching non-harmful devices to the network.
Now Genachowski is proposing two new principles. The first would prevent Internet access providers from discriminating against particular Internet content or applications, while allowing for reasonable network management. The second principle would ensure that Internet access providers are transparent about the network management practices they implement.
Genachowski also made it clear that the Net neutrality rules he plans to make regulation will be applied to wireless provider, too.
So as of 2009, Genachowski will not be exempting the Wireless and treating everything the same.
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