U.S. Congress recent actions towards Net Neutrality...

The U.S. Congress will push for net neutrality legislation next year, even though the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has acted against broadband providers that it found to block or slow Web content, an adviser to a senior U.S. senator said Thursday.
While the FCC has addressed what it saw as net neutrality violations on a case-by-case basis in recent years, a law passed by Congress would provide customers, investors, Web-based companies and broadband providers with certainty about the rules of the road, said Frannie Wellings, telecom counsel for Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat and cosponsor of a bill introduced in 2007 that would have created a net neutrality law.

"We definitely think legislation is necessary," said Wellings, speaking at a University of Nebraska College of Law forum on telecom law in Washington, D.C.

AT&T would prefer that the FCC continue to act on a case-by-case basis on net neutrality issues, said James Cicconi, the telecom's senior executive vice president for external and legislative affairs. After a heated debate for a couple of years, there's been a consensus forming around net neutrality, with many broadband providers now acknowledging that customers want an open Internet and many net neutrality advocates acknowledging that network providers need to manage their networks for the good of customers, he said.

Information found at: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/111308-congress-to-push-for-net.html

In this article, Congress is pushing to pass the Net Neutrality law for 2009, even though the FCC found that there are already slow connections and those who have violated the current (temporary) Net Neutrality bill currently in place. Thus, the Congress began to work on these violation cases one-by-one to give each case their full attention. They also planned to, by laying down a real, ludgitimate law that will provide everyone who uses the internet what they can and cannot do. It then proceeds to tell about how AT&T wants the FCC to continue with their current case-by-case way of dealing with cases. Also, numerous broadband providers have been debating heavily on whether or not to provide internet customers with a free internet. They have finally started to conceive the fact that customers desire an open and free internet and that most of the advocates say that its high time that the broadband providers start thinking more about the good of the people, instead of their own, profitable good.