US net neutrality rules finalized, in effect November 20

The FCC's new rules on net neutrality has gone into effect on November 20, 2011, almost a year after it was approved on Demcember 21, 2010 regarding the "open internet". The following is the FCC's summary on these new rules:

"First, transparency: fixed and mobile broadband providers must disclose the network 
management practices, performance characteristics, and commercial terms of their broadband 
services. Second, no blocking: fixed broadband providers may not block lawful content, 
applications, services, or non-harmful devices; mobile broadband providers may not block lawful 
websites, or block applications that compete with their voice or video telephony services. Third, no
unreasonable discrimination: fixed broadband providers may not unreasonably discriminate in 
transmitting lawful network traffic."




According to Nate Anderson's post on ars technica, "Mobile networks still have broad leeway to discriminate and throttle and even block certain apps, though some of the most obviously objectionable activities are forbidden."


hooha


source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/us-net-neutrality-rules-finalized-in-effect-november-20.ars