The FCC's new boss is to propose new rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from interfering with the free flow of information and certain applications over their networks.

Federal Communications Commission chairman, Julius Genachowski, will announce the proposed rules today. The move is to uphold a promise that Barack Obama made during the presidential campaign to support Internet neutrality and would bar companies like Verizon, Comcast or ATT&T, from slowing or blocking certain services or content flowing through their vast networks.

The rules will apply to all ISPs, including wireless service providers. ISPs have opposed regulations that would inhibit the way they control their networks. They argue they need to be able to make sure applications that consume a lot of bandwidth don't slow Internet access to other users.