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But McAdam suggested that broadband power users should pay extra. "It's only natural that the heavy users help contribute to the investment to keep the Web healthy," he said. "That is the most important concept of net neutrality."

The FCC needs to look at the broad Internet industry, not just broadband providers, when it considers new net neutrality rules, McAdam said. Companies like Netflix, Apple, Microsoft and Google have a role, and "any rules will have to include all of these players," he said.

McAdam called for the FCC to create "light touch" rules on net neutrality. The FCC needs to consider growing uses of broadband in medicine and other fields, he said. "Everything from health care to telematics to the energy grid need to be balanced with someone who's trying to watch last year's episode of [TV show] NCIS," he said.