Yesterday the FCC passed new ‘Net Neutrality’ rules along party lines: 3-2. The full text of the rules haven’t yet been released, but the draft proposals have drawn plenty of fire from both sides, and many experts predict different portions will end up in court soon after they take effect at the beginning of next year.
If I understand correctly, the FCC failed to assert that wireless broadband should fall under their jurisdiction and classify Broadband as a communication service, leaving telecoms to their own devices, making it possible to control what applications you can access on hand-held devices.
The new rules seem to provide for a two-tiered service for different IPs, and that corporate heavy-hitters like Google and Amazon will be able to provide faster access than the second-tier IPs.