Kinzinger Introduces Legislation Forbidding Broadband Rate Regulation
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., introduced legislation Thursday forbidding the FCC from regulating broadband rates. “While [FCC] Chairman [Tom] Wheeler has stated that the FCC does not intend to regulate broadband internet access rates under his leadership, future Commissions still…
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have the authority to insert their own mandates on rates,” Kinzinger said in a statement. “If we are to ensure that the government is not setting the rates we pay to use the internet, we must once and for all take that option off the table. Given no objection from Chairman Wheeler to such legislation, I have introduced the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act.” The two-page bill text includes a straightforward prohibition. The legislation has 17 GOP co-sponsors, including Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore. Kinzinger's spokeswoman told us in April that Kinzinger was weighing legislation that would codify forbearance that was part of the net neutrality order's reclassification of broadband as a Communications Act Title II service.