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President Biden ordered Federal Communications Commission Regulating broadband as strongly as telephone service has fueled industry fears that the government will set rates for internet access.

In a sentence tucked into an executive order he signed last month. Biden instructed FCC Reinstating Obama-era net neutrality regulations that the Trump administration repealed in October.

The much-discussed regulation will reinject the federal government into the internet provider business and ban companies like the following. AT&TIt prevents Comcast and Verizon from speeding up, slowing down or blocking internet traffic, including by preventing providers from charging companies more for high-speed streaming of their content.

broadband enforcement, FCC regulates telephone companies, Mr. Biden ringing alarm bells for providers. NS FCC‘s power over phone companies includes imposing limits on how much phone companies can charge.

Greg Guice, director of government affairs for the left-leaning technology policy group Public Knowledge, said the movement’s FCC enacting rules requiring equal broadband service in poorer and wealthier communities.

Public Knowledge advocated a low-cost option for broadband.

The often high cost of Internet service has created suspicion and distrust on the left.

Consumer groups claimed that internet providers offer slower service in low-income neighborhoods; it’s a claim called the “digital redline” after past discriminatory policies that prevented minorities from buying homes in certain neighborhoods.

Providers dispute the fee.

FCC Trump-appointed Commissioner Brendan Carr said Mr Biden’s order represents another impetus for the government to expand its control over more aspects of society.

Mr Carr said the order “seems to be doubling down on price controls, government-run networks and monopoly-style regulation.”

Seth Cooper, director of policy studies at the Free State Foundation, a conservative technology policy think tank, said the order paved the way for rate regulation.

This is a move that broadband companies fear will limit their ability to expand internet access to more parts of the country and hinder developing new features to offer customers.

Still, net neutrality remains popular on the left, which argues that internet prices are too high.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo last year tried to set prices charged by internet providers to low-income customers. Price controls were blocked by a federal court.

Mr. Biden cannot require FCC to regulate the Internet as a telephone service, since it is an independent institution. However, lobbyists on both sides expect the agency to follow the president’s order after Mr. Biden fills an open seat FCC To secure the majority appointed by the Democrats.

NS five-member commission currently stuck with two Democratic appointees and two Republican appointees.

Tom Wheeler FCCDuring the Obama administration, the president stopped short without going that far.

Still, Mr. Biden’s approach is rekindling the broadband industry’s fierce battle against what the government thinks it’s transcending.

Mr. GuiceThe Public Knowledge lobbyist noted that Mr. Biden’s order came at the same time as increased attention to the red line issue.

The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, passed by the Senate last week, FCC To make new regulations regarding the red line issue, taking into account the technical and economic factors for companies.

“It was huge on a bipartisan basis to tell Congress to fix this,” he said. Guice said and added. Biden‘order and Congress’ red-line dictation are ‘supplementary’.

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