US regulators moved on Monday towards forbidding internet access providers – including those serving mobile devices – from favouring some content companies, programs or devices over others, arguing that the principle known as network neutrality had to be preserved for innovation to flourish.
Julius Genachowski, Federal Communications Commission chairman, said he wanted to establish formal regulations to ban connectivity companies from discriminating against any form of legal internet traffic. Explaining a second principle he wants enshrined in law, the FCC chief said that as companies tried to manage congestion, they should be transparent about the actions they took.
