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In the final days of the campaign, President Trump promised

Aug. 16, 2018 by Ella Pickett

In the final days of the campaign, President Trump promised that his administration would repeal any net neutrality changes he had made and move to repeal the FCC rules.

The Democrats are trying to put pressure on the Republican-controlled FCC to repeal the rule and let their Republican-controlled FCC members pass a similar bill.

"The goal is to repeal the FCC's net neutrality protections, but the Senate needs to pass and the president has already said he will do so. We will do everything we can to keep the rules in place," Pai said at the end of his press conference.LONDON (Reuters) - The British government has approved the launch of a new national broadband network for the first time since 2010 and urged the Government to move towards more efficient and cost-effective broadband service for all.

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at a press conference in London, Britain, October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

In a major step, the government announced it would use its existing broadband network to offer the first national broadband network to British households in five years, which will be financed by a series of auctions for local and national broadband service.

The government also announced it was offering a free upgrade to all of its residential broadband networks, which will run from 2019.

It said the first national broadband network would be a 100 Mbps network called Fibre-to-the-Node (FTTN) that will be able to offer 10 gigabits per second (Gbps), or 1.2 gigabits per second, more than double the current network speed.

The government and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have already approved the new network, which is being built by the IT firm SNC-Lavalin in France and has been approved by CMA and the Government's own planning and operational committee.

The government has also agreed that the price of fibre-to-the-node services will be reduced to match the costs of an existing network.

The move is the latest step in a series of measures to help the economy, which has been struggling to keep up with falling demand for its national broadband.

The government said it would build a new fibre-to-the-node network in Somerset, England, while it planned to expand fibre-to-the-node services across the United Kingdom.

The UK government said it was working with the CMA and the CMA's planning and operational committee to set out its plans for the