FCC Voiced 'Concerns' to Congress About Draft Net Neutrality Bill, Wheeler Says
Chairman Tom Wheeler said the FCC has voiced concerns to Congress about the net neutrality draft legislation that GOP leaders circulated in January. The draft -- the product of Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., House Commerce Committee Chairman…
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Fred Upton, R-Mich., and House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore. -- would codify net neutrality protections while limiting FCC use of Communications Act Title II for broadband and Telecom Act Section 706. The FCC has had conversations “with the sponsors of the bill expressing some concerns about those carve-outs” on specialized services, Wheeler said Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing (see 1503250059). Another concern was about how the draft bill would affect FCC authority and its implications “on how you have that yardstick going forward,” Wheeler told Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., who asked whether Wheeler saw the telecom law as outdated.