Chairmen Waxman & Rockefeller Urge FCC to Protect Broadband Consumers and Implement the Broad Objectives of the National Broadband Plan

Today House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV sent a letter to Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), on the recent opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Comcast Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission. The ruling created legal and regulatory uncertainty regarding FCC’s authority to protect broadband consumers and implement the broad objectives of the National Broadband Plan.

The Chairmen called on the FCC to consider all viable options, including a change in classification, to protect broadband consumers and implement the National Broadband Plan. The Chairmen noted that if there is a need to rewrite the law to provide consumers, the Commission, and industry with a new framework for telecommunications policy, they are committed as Committee Chairmen to doing so.

Click to read the full letter.