White House Revokes Biden-Era Net Neutrality Executive Order
The White House eliminated a Biden-era executive order that contained net neutrality and broadband billing provisions. The 2021 EO on promoting competition urged the FCC to consider adopting net neutrality rules and prohibiting "unjust or unreasonable early termination fees for…
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end-user communications contracts" (see 2107090006). It also urged the agency to undertake a rulemaking to require broadband service providers to regularly report broadband price and subscription rates "for the purpose of disseminating that information to the public in a useful manner, to improve price transparency and market functioning." The EO urged DOJ and FTC to review existing horizontal and vertical merger guidelines "and consider whether to revise those guidelines." DOJ's Antitrust Division on Thursday said with the EO's revocation, it will "continue its work to recalibrate and modernize the Federal approach to competition policy to suit the needs of our dynamic and innovative economy."