FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: The Internet Now Has the Referee It Needs

Addresses net neutrality decision at Mobile World Congress

In his early evening keynote appearance at Mobile World Congress on Tuesday, Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler essentially continued his victory lap five days after his agency voted 3-2 to enforce net neutrality

"You call it a close vote—I call it we had 50 percent more votes than they did," Wheeler remarked. "This is no more a plan to regulate the Internet than the First Amendment is a plan to regulate free speech."

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