Pursuits
AT&T, Comcast Face New Web Rules as Agency Sets Vote
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A U.S. regulator said he’d press to pass Internet-service rules for companies led by AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp., setting up a clash with Republican lawmakers who told him Americans recently voted against expansive government.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski today asked the agency to vote Dec. 21 to bar Internet-service companies from blocking or slowing Web users’ access to lawful content and applications. The net-neutrality rules “ensure that the Internet remains a powerful platform for innovation and job creation,” Genachowski said in a speech in Washington.