Ajit Pai
FCC chairman Ajit Pai will speak this week at a conservative event in the nation’s capital, where he’s expected to unveil his plans for undoing the net neutrality works of the Obama administration.

WASHINGTON (Diya TV) — Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai will kick off the process to scrap the Obama administration’s net neutrality rules on Wednesday, according to sources familiar with the matter.

In Pai’s latest moves to relax regulations in the telecom industry, he will use an upcoming speech in the nation’s capital to repeat his opposition to the FCC’s existing approach, which subjects companies such as AT&T, Charter, Comcast and Verizon to old telephone utility rules to ensure they aren’t blocking or slowing web traffic.

Currently, Pai isn’t expected to articulate a replacement, according to the sources. Instead, he’s more likely to solicit the help and ideas of telecom giants, the sources said, as well as public-interest advocates on an alternative legal approach for net neutrality. That formal exchange of ideas could begin as early as May if he unveils what’s known as a notice of proposed rule-making in the coming days.

Pai has in recent weeks explored the option of whether the best system would see internet providers commit in writing to protect net neutrality. A stark contrast to the rules and regulations the Obama administration had set in place, and it could see another government agency — the Federal Trade Commission — keeping watch over the industry.

The Republican chairman will speak Wednesday at an event hosted by the conservative-leaning group FreedomWorks.

His expected unveiling follows a series a meetings Pai took with tech and telecom giants, including a private series of meetings in Silicon Valley last week. There, he met with executives from Apple, Facebook, Intel and Oracle to discuss a variety of matters, including the future of net neutrality.

Speaking to reporters last week, Pai declined to comment on the public reports about his plans.