Shares of broadband providers have run up since the election on the hope that the Trump administration will bring a lighter touch to telecom policy. But even with looser net neutrality rules on the horizon, little may actually change. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is planning to roll back a key aspect of the Obama administration’s 2015 rules governing how broadband providers treat internet traffic. The new rules are expected to end the policy of classifying broadband as a utility subject to price...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 16, 2017 15:00 UTC