U.S. House to vote on net neutrality bill on Tuesday and White House says President will veto it if passed.

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 The White House on Monday threatened to veto House Democrats’ Net Neutrality bill to reinstate net neutrality pre Trump FCC rules as the legislation heads toward a vote tomorrow.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said on Monday that Trump administration “strongly opposes” the Save the Internet Act, It does have a vast citizen support. The reversal of Net neutrality by Trump Administration was a win for internet providers such as Comcast Corp, AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc, but opposed by companies like Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet Inc. and a major share of general public

The new legislative effort by Democrats would put the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2015 rules back into effect. The Trump administration FCC voted to repeal the Obama-era rules at the end of 2017.

Those rules prohibited internet service providers from blocking, throttling or prioritizing web traffic. Republicans have long opposed the 2015 order because it opened up the broadband industry to greater oversight from the FCC.

The House could vote on the bill as early as Tuesday.

White House Backs Reserving "D Block" For A New National Public Safety Network

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The "D Block" portion of the 700Mhz spectrum that US Public Safety Agencies have been fighting for use in National Public Network looks to be getting a little support, this time from White House itself. The Obama administration said today that it is backing plans to reserve the D Block for a new national public safety network, estimated to be worth $3 billion at the auctions. The administration also plans to ask Congress to approve the spending needed to build the mesh network. FCC estimates building the network could cost as much as $15 billion.
Big wireless companies seem to favor the Public safety Network plan, rather than those air waves ending at smaller competitors hands, according to WSJ;

Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc., which both hold a large amount of airwaves for new 4G wireless services, favor giving the airwaves to public-safety groups instead of auctioning them off to smaller wireless competitors, such as Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile subsidiary and Sprint Nextel Corp.

WSJ via Engadget