Network Neutrality Post Verizon v. FCC

Presentation by Tony Perez to Seattle Citizens Technology and Telecommunications Advisory

BoardMarch 11, 2014

What’s at Stake

Stephen Colbert Explains

Key Definitions Telecommunications – “The transmission, between or

among points specified by the user, of information of the user’s choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received”. (Title II)

Information service – “The offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via telecommunications, and includes electronic publishing, but does not include any use of any such capability for the management, control, or operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a telecommunications service”. (Title I)

Key Dates, Events and Cases 1999 AT&T v Portland (District Court) 2000 AT&T v Portland (9th Circuit)2002 FCC Classifies Internet as Information

Service2003 Brand X v FCC (9th Circuit) 2005 SCOTUS Brand X Case2007 Comcast Throttling of Bit Torrent2008 FCC acts – Open Internet Principles2010 Comcast v FCC ( DC Court of Appeals)2010 FCC Open Internet Rules2014 Verizon v FCC (DC Court of Appeals)

What’s NextFCC options:

Reclassification ?Adjudication?Appeal?

New Business Models e.g. Netflix-Comcast arrangement ?

Use authority under section 706 of Telecom Act to promote municipal broadband