FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras has announced that she has formed an Internet Access Task Force to address “˜Net Neutrality’.


FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras has announced that she has formed an Internet Access Task Force to address “˜Net Neutrality’.

The Internet Access Task Force will examine the issues raised by converging technologies and regulatory developments, according to FTC.

Deborah Platt Majoras said: “The FTC’s Internet Access Task Force is looking carefully at the issues raised by calls for network neutrality laws. . . . I urge caution in proceeding on the issue. I . . . question the starting assumption that government regulation, rather than the market itself under existing laws, will provide the best solution to a problem”. [source]

According to Ms Majoras, The FTC will host a conference with “an array of experts from around the world to inform us about what they see as emerging trends, applications, products, services, and issues over the next ten years”. [source]

FTC has released a preliminary agenda for the conference: Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-Ade.

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