SACRAMENTO — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler on Wednesday proposed regulating Internet service as a public utility, a decision that puts him in step with net-neutrality advocates and President Barack Obama. The move was a sharp departure from the commissioner’s original plan last year to allow “commercially reasonable” pay-for-speed Internet markets. The full FCC is expected to vote on Wheeler’s recommendations Feb. 26.
In a phone interview and email follow-up Wednesday afternoon, John Stephens, a media and entertainment litigation partner in Sedgwick’s Los Angeles office, offered his initial thoughts on the proposal to reclassify Internet service as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.
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