Court Sets Briefing Schedule for Net Neutrality Challenge

Source: Multichannel News

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit has set a briefing schedule for Verizon and MetroPCS' challenge of the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality rules, and that schedule suggests ...
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Classic Obfuscation: The New America Foundation’s Search for the “Public Interest”

Source: Openmarket.org

Milton Friedman once quipped that “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” Perhaps he would add the outmoded idea of the “public interest” as used by the FCC if he were still alive today. On May 23, the New America Foundation, in coor ...
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Lafayette Muni: Phone, Cable and Internet at Only $45,000 a Day

Source: Technology Liberation Front

Steven Titch (@stevetitch) has been telecom and IT policy analyst for the Reason Foundation since 2005. He formerly was a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute and managing editor of Heartland IT and Telecom News. He has published research reports on ...
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Why Comcast really cares about data caps and tiered plans

Source: Digital Trends

Comcast has announced it is going to start charging people extra for going over monthly bandwidth allowances - no more shutoffs! Except for one thing: It seems to be all about keeping competition at bay. The cur ...
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FCC Head Backs Internet Cable Usage-Based Billing

Source: ZeroPaid

It’s been a multi-year fight to maintaining network neutrality and keeping the ISPs in check to allow innovation to flourish online. Unfortunately, years of prosperity, American innovation and job creation on the Internet may be co ...
Full article at: ZeroPaid  More like this  4 days ago, 2:05pm CDT

Tiny Georgia telco files first network neutrality complaint

Source: Ars Technica

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Free Press, Public Knowledge Pan FCC Chair's Usage-Based Pricing Shout-out

Source: Multichannel News

The chairman pointed out that he had never backed the one size fits all pricing model, and said that charging more for more bandwidth also meant charging less for less, so it could be consumer friendly as well as a driver of innovation and consumer choic ...
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“Search Neutrality” and Network Neutrality: Birds of a Very Different Feather - Comments by Marvin Ammori

Source: Law Professor Blogs

“Search neutrality” came up as a usual proposed remedy, with Grimmelmann devoting his talk to critiquing the concept and Frank devoting part of his talk to defending it. One speaker suggested that search neutrality and network neutrality have a ...
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The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation

New legislation in the Netherlands makes it the first country in Europe to establish a legal framework supporting net neutrality. In addition to the net neutrality provisions, the law contains language that res ...
Full article at: Electronic Frontier Foundation  More like this  6 days ago, 12:44pm CDT