FCC’s Wheeler Seeking Votes Raises Chance of Web Price Rules
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has revised his open-Internet proposal to include possible changes that service providers say could lead to price regulation.
Wheeler’s proposal today includes language to bring Internet services under tougher oversight after his initial plan to allow paid fast lanes for Web traffic drew resistance from other FCC commissioners. The new plan doesn’t change his preference for a case-by-case approach on a pay-for-priority system, said an agency official who spoke on condition of not being named because the proposal hasn’t been made public.