Clik here to view.
FCC Delays Net Neutrality Vote — Again
It’s like Groundhog Day — without Sonny and Cher. The federal government has again delayed a highly anticipated vote on rules designed to keep the internet free from meddling by the huge phone and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FCC Announces Net Neutrality Order for December Meeting
Five years after the federal government first began considering rules designed to keep the internet free from meddling by the huge phone and cable companies, the nation’s top communications regulator...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Google, Facebook, Twitter to Feds: Man Up on Net Neutrality
Amid the cacophony of reactions to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposed internet openness rules, one group has been conspicuously absent — the world’s largest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mobile Carriers Dream of Charging per Page
Just a week before the FCC holds a vote on whether to apply fairness rules to some of the nation’s internet service providers, two companies that sell their services to the country’s largest cellular...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FCC Passes Compromise Net Neutrality Rules
In a closely watched vote, the Federal Communications Commission approved compromise net neutrality rules Tuesday that would forbid the nation’s largest cable and DSL internet service providers from...
View ArticleMetroPCS Data Plans Violate Net-Fairness Rules, Groups Tell FCC
A coalition of public interest groups asked federal regulators on Tuesday to investigate whether new mobile internet plans from MetroPCS violate open-internet rules passed in late 2010. Free Press,...
View ArticleVerizon Files Suit Against FCC Net Neutrality Rules
Verizon filed a legal challenge Thursday to net neutrality rules passed by the FCC less than a month ago, arguing the regulators overstepped their authority. Verizon’s suit, filed in a federal appeals...
View ArticleAccused of Violating Net Neutrality, MetroPCS Sues FCC
The FCC’s new internet-openness rules, which passed just before Christmas, are already facing their second legal attack, as MetroPCS challenged them Monday in federal court. MetroPCS, the fifth largest...
View ArticleFCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Eyed for Commerce Secretary: Report
Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski is among the candidates being considered to replace outgoing Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, whom President Obama is tapping to become the new U.S....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Court Tosses Net Neutrality Challenges – For Now
The FCC’s net neutrality rules got a breather Monday as Verizon and MetroPCS’s early challenges to the controversial limits on wireless service were thrown out by a federal appeals court on a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Netflix and Google Could Lead the Fight For Net Neutrality
Google Fiber is the fastest way to watch Netflix. That's good news not just for the lucky few who have Google's fledgling high-speed internet service. It's good news for Netflix itself in the coming...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why the Comcast-Time Warner Deal Is Far More Dangerous Than You Think
The merger would go beyond the cable TV, commercial broadband, and telephone industries to impact satellite TV, television programmers like ESPN and Fox, online video providers like NetFlix and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Banning Netflix From Its Set-Top Boxes Won’t Save Comcast
Netflix is not just a potential content provider to cable. It's a competitor grooming viewers in a way that will ultimately undermine cable's business model.
View Article
