Verizon/Yahoo Shows Importance of ISP Privacy Rules, Wheeler Says

The FCC won't review Verizon’s proposed buy of Yahoo (see 1607250016), FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in the news conference after commissioners' meeting Thursday. “There aren’t any licenses that transfer.” The deal demonstrates the importance of the agency’s ISP privacy proceeding “and the questions that were raised in there as to what’s the appropriate use of network-generated information,” he said. Wheeler didn’t say when the FCC would consider a final privacy order. Some characterize the proposed rules as having a “chilling” effect on industry, Wheeler said: “Well, it certainly didn’t have an impact on this deal, it would appear.”