This comes after proponents of net neutrality, like Stanford Law Professor Barbara Van Schewick and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), had called out the rules for leaving room for 5G fast lanes within the draft rules. Fast lanes are made feasible by a technical feature of the 5G network called network slicing— which allows telcos to create a virtualized subnetwork (called a ‘slice’) for a dedicated purpose. “While draft order acknowledges that some speeding up of apps could violate the no-throttling rule, it added some unclear, nebulous language suggesting that the FCC would review any fast lanes case-by-case, without explaining how it would do that,” Van Schewick had said in a blog post explaining the issue present in the draft rules.
- Date Published:5.9.2024
- Original Publication:Medianama