The FCC's Open Internet rules protect your ability to go where you want when you want online. Broadband service providers cannot block or deliberately slow speeds for internet services or apps, create special fast lanes for content, or engage in other practices that harm internet openness.
A corporation that is an affiliate to the parent company. A corporation of which another company owns a significant percentage, but not a majority, of its shares. This gives the company a great deal of influence, but not outright control, of the affiliated corporation. See also: Subsidiary, Parent company.
An âaffiliateâ is a type of inter-company relationship in which a company owns less than a majority of another companyâs stock. During an affiliate, the parent company (the main company) has some sort of relationship with another smaller company, in which it may or may not own the companyâs shares.