But, he said, the commission would also exempt broadband service from many of the rules affecting telephone service, seeking mainly to guarantee that Internet service providers could not discriminate against certain applications, Internet sites or users.
Consumer advocates have pushed particularly hard for net neutrality rules, which would guarantee that Internet service providers cannot give a faster channel through their pipes to their own content or products or those of a company that pays them for it.
Rather, it must let cable subscribers choose among several Internet options, and even the smallest Internet service provider is guaranteed a deal as good as AOL gets.
The system allows a customer to dynamically order a guaranteed IP transport service from an Internet Service Provider over a Web-interface.
Those groups have been pushing for the commission to re-establish its authority over Internet service providers and to guarantee the open-access practice known as net neutrality.
You may think that because you have signed up to a free internet service provider you are guaranteed free connection at all times.
Earthlink also is guaranteed that it will be able to offer Internet service as soon or sooner on Time Warner's systems than any other company, including America Online.
In Washington, officials at the Federal Trade Commission have threatened to try to block the AOL-Time Warner deal unless the companies agree to stringent conditions that would guarantee that Time Warner's cable companies remain open to competing Internet service companies.
Chief among these: the guarantee of open access to the cable network for rival Internet service providers, a similar provision barring discriminatory treatment of interactive television traffic, and a monitoring system to handle complaints from the new AOL Time Warner's competitors.
For the internet service providers, meanwhile, Cameron's crusade is guaranteed bad news.
AOL can guarantee that Navigator will have tens of millions of users simply by switching its own Internet service customers to Navigator from Internet Explorer.
