This FCC proposal regarding the traditional "internet" seems reasonable to me,
especially the part about allowing a separate cable system for heavy use businesses.
I still have no idea about what it means for "wireless" users.
I see the advantages of wireless internet for the service-industry people who must travel to do their work.
But watching movies on "smart" phones doesn't raise my passions.
This article has a more details.
NYTimes
F.C.C. Chairman Outlines Broadband Framework
By EDWARD WYATT
Published: December 1, 2010
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WASHINGTON — Thwarted by the courts, by lawmakers on Capitol Hill and by some of his fellow commissioners,
the Federal Communications Commission chairman will try again on Wednesday to devise a new strategy for regulating
broadband Internet service providers.
In a speech he plans to give Wednesday in Washington, Julius Genachowski, the F.C.C. chairman,
will outline a framework for broadband Internet service that forbids both wired and wireless Internet
service providers from blocking lawful content.
But the proposal would allow broadband providers to charge consumers different rates for different
levels of service, according to a text of the speech provided to The New York Times.
The proposal will allow broadband companies to impose usage-based pricing, charging customers higher prices
if they make heavy use of data-rich applications like streaming movies.
Users who use the Internet only to check e-mail, for example, could be charged lower prices for using less data.
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Mr. Genachowski will also face significant opposition from Republicans in the House of Representatives,
who last month warned against attempts to regulate broadband service and the Internet.
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