Bill to stop tiered pricing

Rep. Massa introduces legislation known as the Broadband Internet Fairness Act, part of a larger discussion of net neutrality. The law seeks to regulate Internet Service Providers looking to implement usage-based pricing plans like those proposed by Time Warner. The regulations are designed to determine if the pricing is anti-competitive. An AT&T spokesman says the bill calls”

for a radical and unprecedented government mandate that will demand that consumers have only one all-you-can-eat pricing model for Internet services.