New FCC chair closely guards his strategy to restructure net neutrality

Committed to open Internet: A file photo of then-FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai (left) and FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2015. — Reuters

WASHINGTON: The new chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission under President Donald Trump is keeping under wraps his strategy to revise or reverse the Obama administration's "net neutrality" rules, but emphasised he is committed to ensuring an open Internet.

Ajit Pai, 44, a Republican lawyer who has served as a FCC commissioner since 2012, strongly opposed former Democratic President Barack Obama administration's 2015 net neutrality rules that reclassified broadband providers and treated them like a public utility.