United States adopts historic rules on Internet – CNNExpansión.com

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC, for its acronym in English) United States passed landmark legislation to regulate the Internet.

The new rules, known as “net neutrality” act to provide equal opportunities in Internet speed and access to the sites.

The central question was whether the owners of the networks in the US, like Comcast or Time Warner Cable, can discriminate what runs in your wiring. FCC’s response was clear: No.

The commission approved by three votes against two US government authority on Internet.

Now there are two sides of the debate who say “We save the Internet!” And those who say “We destroy Internet with government bureaucracy”.

Do not believe either and take a breath because lack long way to go.

The FCC rules will not be official until the summer. By then, it is expected that telecommunications companies checkpoint rules in court, and a judge might put on hold.

So in the short term, nothing changes. Netflix will have faster tranmisiones or AT & T or Comcast stop placing high-speed fiber.

Netflix could still reach agreements to have access to a faster network.

So what happened? The FCC power is said to defeat a monster: the monopoly of the owners of the networks that can kill Internet freedom by blocking sites or create a quick line to the rich technology companies that can afford it.

But this monster is still a phantom threat. In the past, companies have been ‘bullies’. Verizon blocking Google Wallet, AT & T can not block apps for video chatting and Comcast slowed sites like BitTorrent. The existing FCC rules used to fix those problems.

Therefore there is concern about the way in which the FCC said the network neutrality. To implement the rules, the agency shall make the companies under the Telecommunications Act 2934, which sets regulations to telephone companies. The firms say those rules do not apply to the services they provide and do not believe in the promise of the FCC that apply only a fraction of those rules and do not regulate rates or tax hikes.

How it began to interest this topic? Give credit to comedian John Oliver, who managed four million viewers send comments to the FCC.

It took the issue from the perspective of a person who deals with the ISP. The plans are expensive and have few options. Clearly, the owners of the networks are the bad guys.

Wait, there’s a third option. While this battle comes to the courts, Congress has the opportunity to write rules that work.

After all, both the owners of the networks and the sites have a point. The locks and anti-competitive behavior should be illegal. On the other hand, for technical reasons, the owners of the networks need to manage traffic. Your video should be faster than your mail so that the experience is good.

So, critics disqualified the instrument that the FCC used today. But it is unclear if it is so wonderful or terrible as everyone says.