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Trump Appoints Two Anti-Net Neutrality Advocates To Oversee FCC Transition
In case you’ve been wondering what will happen to net neutrality under the Trump presidency, wonder no more.
On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump appointed Jeffrey Eisenach and Mark Jamison, two vocal opponents of net neutrality, to run his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) transition team. Both Eisenach and Jamison will come on as industry insiders: Eisenach is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and has been a paid consultant for Verizon Wireless. He also worked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) transition team under President Reagan and the FCC transition team under George W. Bush. Jamison, meanwhile, runs the Public Utility Resource Center at the University of Florida and is a former lobbyist for Sprint.
Trump had already hired Eisenach in October as an aide to help craft his telecoms policies and plans for the FCC. Monday’s announcement formalizes Eisenach’s role, and names him and Jamison to the “landing team” that will work directly with the current FCC administration on the transition.
Under the Obama administration, the FCC has advanced protections for net neutrality. The FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order ensured that Internet providers can’t discriminate between different types of content. That means that your Internet service can’t make you pay extra to get a “fast lane” to watch Netflix and relegate others to possibly unusable “slow lanes.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/shelbyc...i-net-neutrality-fcc-transition/#6e7af39733e1
Trump Appoints Two Anti-Net Neutrality Advocates To Oversee FCC Transition
In case you’ve been wondering what will happen to net neutrality under the Trump presidency, wonder no more.
On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump appointed Jeffrey Eisenach and Mark Jamison, two vocal opponents of net neutrality, to run his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) transition team. Both Eisenach and Jamison will come on as industry insiders: Eisenach is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and has been a paid consultant for Verizon Wireless. He also worked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) transition team under President Reagan and the FCC transition team under George W. Bush. Jamison, meanwhile, runs the Public Utility Resource Center at the University of Florida and is a former lobbyist for Sprint.
Trump had already hired Eisenach in October as an aide to help craft his telecoms policies and plans for the FCC. Monday’s announcement formalizes Eisenach’s role, and names him and Jamison to the “landing team” that will work directly with the current FCC administration on the transition.
Under the Obama administration, the FCC has advanced protections for net neutrality. The FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order ensured that Internet providers can’t discriminate between different types of content. That means that your Internet service can’t make you pay extra to get a “fast lane” to watch Netflix and relegate others to possibly unusable “slow lanes.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/shelbyc...i-net-neutrality-fcc-transition/#6e7af39733e1