FCC Clarifies That Its Net Neutrality Order Doesn’t Allow 5G Fast Lanes

This comes after proponents of net neutrality, like Stanford Law Professor Barbara Van Schewick and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), had called out the rules for leaving room for 5G fast lanes within the draft rules. Fast lanes are made feasible by a technical feature of the 5G network called network slicing— which allows telcos to create a virtualized subnetwork (called a ‘slice’) for a dedicated purpose. Read more about FCC Clarifies That Its Net Neutrality Order Doesn’t Allow 5G Fast Lanes