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Watchdog Groups Ask FCC to Examine Internet Data Caps

Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative say that with 56% of households now affected by data caps the FCC must ensure they are linked to "legitimate ...

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Senator DeMint Vows to Reverse Net Neutrality Regulations

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-SC, says the FCC should really stand for "Fabricating a Crisis Commission," and slams the proposal as an "Internet takeover" by "unelected bureaucrats." Yesterday, the FCC ...


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FCC Approves Net Neutrality Legislation!

Approves regulations that require all ISPs to publicly disclose their network traffic management practices, restricts them from blocking legal content and applications, and bars them from "unreasonable discrimination" of lawful ...

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FCC Chief Suggests ISPs Switch to “Usage-Based Pricing”

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski tells audience that ISPs need "meaningful flexibility to manage their networks," and that in order to "promote network investment and efficient use of networks" measures like ...

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US Net Neutrality Supporters Get New Ally – Democrats

The network neutrality debate has been getting very heated in the US. A Verizon-Google agreement drew heavy criticism from proponents of network neutrality. Now, it seems, that four ...


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Verizon: Comcast Shouldn’t Have Throttled P2P

Says it "clearly did harm a lot of users" and calls for an ISP code of conduct that says "any of the players on the Internet should not do anything ...

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MPAA Successfully Kills TVs Record Button

If anyone thought the ideas around the Broadcast Flag have finally died off, they'd be dead wrong. Reports are coming in that the FCC has granted Selectable Output Control ...

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FCC Wants to Restore Broadband “Status Quo”

Wants to develop approach that would "empower consumers" and "enhance economic growth," while at the same time avoiding regulatory overreach to address concerns that the Internet should only have those ...

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FCC Giving Up on Net Neutrality?

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski appears ready to cave in to demands of ISPs that it leave them alone, and to decide how best to manage their networks ...

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Scrutiny Over 1.5 Million US Job Losses Due to Net Neutrality Mounts

While the European Union is dealing with a filtering debate that appears to be a threat to the internet as we know it, the internet as we know ...

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US Study Claims Network Neutrality Would Negatively Impact 1.5 Million Jobs

Another day, another doom and gloom study. This time, Coleman Bazelon of The Brattle Group claims that if network neutrality were put in place, nearly 1.5 Million jobs would ...

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BitTorrent CEO: For Now, Public is the Broadband Regulator

BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker says that after an appeals courts ruled the FCC lacked the "ancillary" authority to enforce net neutrality rules it will be the public that serves as ...

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Verizon CEO: “We Will Find Pirates, Throttle Them, and Charge Extra”

CEO Ivan Seidenberg says it has to be able to deal with the 5% or 10% of customers that are "abusers...chewing up all the bandwidth," and that "net neutrality" interferes ...

FCC Outlines Plan for “Net Neutrality”

FCC Outlines Plan for “Net Neutrality”

Proposes 6 principles for a for preserving a free and open Internet. Today in a speech at at The Brookings Institution, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined the ...

FCC – Comcast Was Wrong to Throttle, but Prioritizing Packets is Fine

FCC – Comcast Was Wrong to Throttle, but Prioritizing Packets is Fine

It seems like a victory for many to see Comcast punished for throttling BitTorrent, but now it seems the FCC has become confused about what to do at ...

Tomorrow the FBI will be able to wiretap all internet users

Tomorrow the FBI will be able to wiretap all internet users

Today is the official deadline for compliance with the FCC's new interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act(CALEA). Cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, ...

Fox chief blasts FCC’s “murky” indecency rules

As Fox, CBS and NBC are locked in a legal battle with the Federal Communications Commission over harsh new indecency rules, Fox's entertainment president has accused the agency of creating ...

Internet phones must pay into subsidy fund, says FCC

Consumers who use wireless or Internet-based telephones could see their bills rise, as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved on Wednesday a new plan for funding phone service subsidies. The FCC ...

Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality

A hotly contested Democratic bid to enshrine extensive Net neutrality regulations in the law books failed Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. By a 34-22 vote, members of the House ...







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