The Federal Communications Commission proposed an approach to regulating broadband Internet service on Thursday in light of the recent Comcast decision, that would reclassify the transmission component as a basic utility subject to the agency’s oversight in order to enforce consumer protections and equal access.

FCC chairman Julius Genachowski proposes to regulate broadband lines under existing rules that govern traditional phone networks.

The case for net neutrality is to maintain an Internet where user access is free from government or provider restrictions on content or devices, and that web access is not unnecessarily slowed or blocked. In essense, all data is treated equally, and no Internet service provider (Comcast, TimeWarner, Verizon, et. al) can give preferential treatment in regard to where content comes from or the speed at which data is made available.

However, under FCC chairman Julius Genachowski's proposal, broadband lines regulated under existing rules that govern traditional phone networks would broadband something between a utility and an information service, and that it would under that definition have the ability to regulate traffic.

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