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FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole
Putting applications into fast lanes would violate FCC's no-throttling rule.
The final rule "prohibits 'fast lanes' and other favorable treatment for particular applications or content even when the edge provider isn't required to pay for it... For example, mobile carriers will not be able to use network slicing to offer broadband customers a guaranteed quality of service for video conferencing from some companies but not others," said Michael Calabrese, director of the Open Technology Institute's Wireless Future Project. Under the draft version of the rules, the FCC would have used a case-by-case approach to determine whether specific implementations of what it called "positive discrimination" would harm consumers. Under the original plan, "there was no way to predict which kinds of fast lanes the FCC might ultimately find to violate the no-throttling rule," she wrote.
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