Net neutrality (postscript): the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) twists and turns

Key Points:

There is much interest in how the FCC will seek to define acting in a "commercially unreasonable manner"

Just after our last examination of net neutrality developments here and overseas, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced last week that it will propose new rules governing net neutrality.

The Wall Street Journal first reported that "Regulators are proposing new rules on Internet traffic that would allow broadband providers to charge companies a premium for access to their fastest lanes".

The intense public conjecture that followed prompted FCC to make a statement in an effort to clarify its position. In that statement the FCC said that the rules will not be a reversal of policy and that they will propose the following: