President Biden’s sweeping executive order on competition Friday targeted broadband service, a sign of how big cable companies remain in Democrats’ sights even as key agencies lack the firepower to pursue their most controversial policies.

Friday’s order calls for new protections for broadband subscribers by restricting business practices that administration officials consider anticompetitive. The proposals seek to limit early-termination fees charged to customers who switch providers; curb exclusive deals with apartment landlords, which block new broadband companies from competing for tenants’ business; and require internet providers to detail their rates and fees in a standardized format similar to the boxes that spell out nutritional values for food and interest rates for credit cards.

Another provision seeks to revive protections for net neutrality, a concept that keeps network operators from selectively blocking or slowing legal internet content. That proposal will likely stir up debate over much-litigated regulations written during the Obama administration and later repealed during the Trump administration.

Some lower-profile proposals could avoid the controversy that the net-neutrality debate stirred up nearly a decade ago. Gigi Sohn, a fellow at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and former counselor to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler during the Obama administration, said that rules making it easier for consumers to choose providers should prove popular.

“Competition leads to lower prices, better service, more choice,” Ms. Sohn said. “What’s not to like?”

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