U.S. mandates new comparison internet-service labels - Yahoo Finance

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission connected Thursday said it finalized caller rules requiring labels to assistance consumers examination store for broadband net services.

The FCC is requiring labels that look akin to the ubiquitous nutrition labels connected U.S. nutrient products and necessitate broadband providers to display, astatine the constituent of sale, labels that amusement prices, speeds, fees and information allowances.

The labels were archetypal unveiled arsenic a voluntary programme successful 2016. Congress ordered the FAA to mandate them nether the 2021 infrastructure law.

(Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Jonathan Oatis)