The FCC has quietly made the decision today to reclassify Internet access as a telecommunication service that would be subject to tougher net neutrality rules. Although rumors had spread of the agency backtracking on its promise, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski is now said to be readying a proposal that would put Internet lines under the same Title II "common carriage" rules as phone lines, requiring providers to treat data equally on the network. Not all of the same rules would apply, but which would be exempted weren't known.
