In a 3-2 ruling, the Federal Communication Commission has ruled that Comcast’s throttling of certain protocols on customers connections is unlawful according to an article by CNET News. This is the first time the FCC has ruled that a U.S. ISP has violated net-neutrality rules. The Republican Chairman and the two Democrats on the Commission voted in favor of the ruling, with the other two Republicans members dissenting. Comcast will not be fined, but will be required to “disclose the details of its discriminatory network management practices to the Commission”, “submit a compliance plan describing how it intends to stop these discriminatory management practices by the end of the year”, and “disclose to customers and the Commission the network management practices that will replace current practices” according to a summary of the FCC’s order.
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