• California's net neutrality law, also known as S.B. 822, was passed in 2018 in the wake of the repeal of the FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order. (eff.org)
  • While the D.C. Circuit deferred to the FCC's decision to repeal net neutrality, it did not agree that states were powerless. (eff.org)
  • Finally, how do any potential public safety considerations bear on the FCC's underlying decision to classify broadband as a Title I information service? (benton.org)
  • The FCC's 2015 Open Internet regulations are strong net neutrality protections, but their effectiveness ultimately depends on their enforcement. (umich.edu)
  • The FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order lays out rules that prohibit broadband ISPs from restricting users' internet traffic or unfairly favoring certain online content or services. (umich.edu)
  • The FCC's 2015 Open Internet regulations are a strong set of rules to protect net neutrality and a very important victory for media democracy. (umich.edu)
  • And unlike the FCC's last stab at net neutrality in 2010, today's new rules also apply to mobile broadband. (engadget.com)
  • However, many people filing comments in the FCC's net neutrality proceeding want the regulations. (computerworld.com)
  • USTelecom, the trade group for broadband providers, has filed a rather peculiar pre-emptive lawsuit against the FCC's new Open Internet rules , arguing that while USTelecom supports net neutrality, it doesn't support the rules the FCC laid down to protect it. (pcmag.com)
  • In a 2018 brief to the D.C. Appeals Court, the Computer & Communications Industry Association - another trade group representing major software companies like Google and Meta - argued against the FCC's rollback of net neutrality rules, citing investment booms in cloud-based and streaming services resulting from mandatory equal accessibility. (broadbandbreakfast.com)
  • The decision has been eagerly awaited since a federal appeals court ruling last month cast doubt on the FCC's authority over broadband lines, throwing into question Mr. Genachowski's proposal to set new rules for how Internet traffic is managed. (reason.com)
  • Everyone agrees that the FCC's Section 60506 rules should bar deliberately withholding broadband service from an area out of animus for people in one of the protected classes. (city-journal.org)
  • Scott Cleland, U.S. coordinator for communications and information policy under President George H.W. Bush, says FCC's net neutrality rules were just a way to increase the agency's power over consumers. (heartland.org)
  • Katie McAuliffe, executive director of Digital Liberty, a nonprofit organization promoting policies encouraging a consumer-driven technology market, says FCC's net neutrality rules solved a problem no one had. (heartland.org)
  • That reclassification is necessary to restore the FCC's authority to regulate broadband carriers. (mediapost.com)
  • Rosenworcel's current push for federal broadband rules comes one day after telecom attorney Anna Gomez was sworn in as the FCC's fifth commissioner, giving the agency a Democratic majority for the first time in more than two years. (mediapost.com)
  • A federal appeals court has upheld much of the FCC's net neutrality repeal, but it also said the agency can't prevent states from adopting their own rules. (cnet.com)
  • The rules also firmly established the FCC's authority as the "cop on the beat" when it comes to policing potential broadband abuses. (cnet.com)
  • One of the most significant changes that's often overlooked is that the FCC's "Restoring Internet Freedom" order also stripped away the FCC's authority to regulate broadband, handing it to the Federal Trade Commission. (cnet.com)
  • Holding that jurisdiction over broadband providers' privacy and data security practices should be returned to the FTC, the two officials said that for the time being they "will work together on harmonizing the FCC's privacy rules for broadband providers with the FTC's standards for other companies in the digital economy. (csoonline.com)
  • With a stroke of the proverbial pen, the Federal Communications Commission-the same agency that should be the 'cop on the beat' when it comes to ensuring appropriate consumer protections-is leaving broadband customers without assurances that their providers will keep their data secure," said Mignon Clyburn, the FCC's only Democratic commissioner, in a dissenting statement. (csoonline.com)
  • One of the FCC's justifications for deregulating the broadband market was that the Federal Trade Commission can force ISPs to uphold their net neutrality promises. (techdirt.com)
  • 1) The ink isn't even dry on the FCC's Net neutrality order and yet it already has the inside-the-Beltway lobbying machine humming . (techliberation.com)
  • We're just a few weeks into the FCC's new "light touch" Net neutrality regulatory regime and yet we're already seeing pleadings like this one. (techliberation.com)
  • And apparently we can look forward to more of this sort of across-the-board, damn-the-consequences market meddling thanks to what Randy May of the Free State Foundation refers to as "Infamous No. 78" of the FCC's Net neutrality order. (techliberation.com)
  • Designation of internet providers as Lifeline participants relied on the FCC's authority to regulate internet providers under the network neutrality rules, according to the FCC's order . (vox.com)
  • Popular websites also supported the FCC's move to instate network neutrality rules, including Netflix, Google and Twitter. (vox.com)
  • Even the internet service providers (ISP) who are subject the FCC's net neutrality regulations expressed support on the Day of Action for policies that promote an open and free internet. (uschamber.com)
  • The California legislature responded by crafting net neutrality rules that covered all non-net-neutral activity by ISPs in the state. (eff.org)
  • For the reasons above and more, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rolled back federal net neutrality rules in 2017 via the Restoring Internet Freedom Order. (freedomworks.org)
  • In 2017, Germany mobile network operators like Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone were offering services that seemed to affect net neutrality. (wikipedia.org)
  • Internet companies have also argued net neutrality is simply unnecessary, citing a lack of widespread throttling after the rules were repealed in 2017, although studies found it did occur on some services like Youtube and Netflix. (broadbandbreakfast.com)
  • The DC Circuit Court of Appeals found the FCC had not overstepped its authority in 2017 when it voted to deregulate broadband companies like Comcast and Verizon. (cnet.com)
  • The FCC, led by Pai, voted on Dec. 14, 2017 , to repeal the 2015 net neutrality regulations. (cnet.com)
  • The seal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seen before an FCC meeting to vote on net neutrality, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The Federal Communications Commission in December 2017 voted to eliminate net neutrality rules and relinquish its authority to regulate ISPs as common carriers. (techdirt.com)
  • In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rolled back federal protections for net neutrality. (eff.org)
  • Major ISPs had insisted that only the Federal Communications Commission could define and enforce net neutrality protections, so when the FCC decided to eviscerate those protections in 2018, the rest of the nation simply had to live with the consequences. (eff.org)
  • The major ISPs have been waging a campaign to eliminate not only net neutrality protections but also consumer privacy rules . (eff.org)
  • These privacy protections currently extend to phone service customers, but not to broadband subscribers. (mediapost.com)
  • The FCC previously attempted to issue net neutrality protections, but those efforts were either shot down in court, or repealed with a change in administration. (mediapost.com)
  • Now, the fight to restore net neutrality protections is expected to head to the states . (cnet.com)
  • California and other states stepped into this void to protect their residents from abuse at the hand of broadband providers, with California leading the nation by passing SB 822 , providing state-level protections for net neutrality. (eff.org)
  • Removing net neutrality protections could eventually mean a company like Netflix would end up charging more for its service, since it will have to pay internet providers to reach users at top speeds. (vox.com)
  • Advocates of strong net neutrality rules have criticized Wheeler's proposal as too weak, potentially allowing broadband providers to charge Web content producers for priority traffic. (computerworld.com)
  • This result also thwarts the political strategy the big ISPs hatched when former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai took office and announced his plans to repeal net neutrality. (eff.org)
  • In other words, the federal government can't simultaneously disclaim any ability to meaningfully protect net neutrality and also prevent anyone else from stepping up to fill the gap that disclaimer creates. (eff.org)
  • In early 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed surprisingly strong regulations to protect "net neutrality," the principle that internet service providers (ISPs) treat all network traffic equally. (umich.edu)
  • A U.S. lawmaker has introduced legislation that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying broadband as a common-carrier utility, a move many net neutrality advocates have called for. (computerworld.com)
  • Net neutrality advocates' premise is that infrastructure companies should not control content, but that it's perfectly acceptable for content companies, in conjunction with government, to control infrastructure. (cei.org)
  • Success in inflicting the "infrastructure socialism" embodied in net neutrality would set in place the machinery for endless interventions, not just against the current targets but against today's advocates. (cei.org)
  • But regulators, consumer advocates and internet companies were concerned about what broadband companies could do with their power as the pathway to the internet -- blocking or slowing down apps that rival their own services, for example. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Civil liberties advocacy group the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and New Yorkers for Fair Use, composed of businesspeople and technology advocates, both released net neutrality proposals Tuesday, two days before the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is set to debate the issue as part of a hearing to amend a wide-ranging communications bill. (cio.com)
  • At the same time, the providers could experiment with private network services where they could make exclusive agreements with services such as broadband video, a practice objected to by some net neutrality advocates. (cio.com)
  • The Republicans' new majority at the FCC, along with their control of Congress and the White House, is expected to help them roll back policies applauded by consumer advocates that upset many phone and cable industry groups, including net neutrality rules that bar internet service providers from favoring some websites and apps over others. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Many advocates of using Title II to regulate the internet argue that Title II is necessary to give the FCC the strongest legal footing to enforce net neutrality rules. (uschamber.com)
  • His words revealed a larger shift in broadband industry logic: ISPs acting less as communications conduits and more as media distributors. (umich.edu)
  • The Obama era FCC enacted its net neutrality rules for ISPs by classifying them as common carriers. (forbes.com)
  • But there's a problem with the ISPs' argument to Pai: Years ago, the FCC crafted net neutrality rules, but didn't also classify broadband as a utility service. (mediapost.com)
  • These are, effectively, loopholes that can be exploited by ISPs and could, and likely will, undermine net neutrality in the EU. (helpnetsecurity.com)
  • For years, massive broadband providers (and the lawmakers and think tankers paid to love them) have repeatedly stated that gutting net neutrality and FCC oversight of ISPs is no big deal because the FTC will rush in and protect consumers . (techdirt.com)
  • When ISPs like Comcast convinced the Trump FCC to kill net neutrality, they repeatedly proclaimed that the FTC would step in and ensure that nothing bad would happen . (techdirt.com)
  • An AT&T victory could leave many ISPs in a regulation-free zone. (techdirt.com)
  • The current rulemaking calls for removing the Title II designation of ISPs but does not specifically call for eliminating bright-line net neutrality rules-which as previously mentioned, polls well with the public. (uschamber.com)
  • It's questionable whether the commission would issue any regulations, however, since its last attempt at policing the activities of broadband ISPs prompted a lawsuit and eventually spawned the bill that Waxman withdrew on Wednesday. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • If you've been following the net neutrality debate over the past few years, you wouldn't be blamed for getting discouraged. (engadget.com)
  • Grassroots activist hi-jinks aside, both sides in net neutrality debate risk increased vulnerability to political predation as a result of this proceeding, and make themselves more so the longer their respective upper-level managements fail to jointly call these proceedings into question in a CEO-level communications industry "summit" of sorts. (cei.org)
  • Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. (cnet.com)
  • In an effort to advance the net neutrality debate in the U.S. Congress, two groups have offered their own proposals to prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against competing Internet content, while allowing providers to separate out part of their networks for specialized products. (cio.com)
  • Debate surrounding net neutrality typically focuses on effects to consumers who use streaming services like Netflix, gaming and other entertainment systems at home. (newstribune.com)
  • It's not turning out quite that way, and already we can see the first fruit of what happens when Net Neutrality is not defended in what has happened while the debate has been going on. (swcp.com)
  • These consumer benefits should not be delayed while we define and debate other issues,' such as controversial net neutrality Internet regulations, Tauke said. (verizon.com)
  • Saying that last year's Federal Communications Commission policy statement recognized that it would be premature to impose Internet regulations in the absence of a real problem, Tauke said the telecommunications reform legislation takes a 'sensible approach' to the polarized net neutrality debate. (verizon.com)
  • This article will serve as a net neutrality debate platform. (debatewise.org)
  • Network traffic management is the central issue in the Net Neutrality debate. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • Pai's critics argue that expecting the same regulations from Apple and Optimum is comparing apples to oranges. (forbes.com)
  • Rural broadband providers are praising Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai's new effort to roll back the net neutrality rules. (mediapost.com)
  • The new chairman has moved to rescind Obama-era policies since taking office, including some that were only possible as a result of the network neutrality regulations championed by Pai's predecessor, Tom Wheeler, who left the agency when Trump took office. (vox.com)
  • Consumers are harmed by unnecessary net neutrality regulation that discourages investment in faster networks and innovative new offerings like 5G gigabit mobile broadband. (heartland.org)
  • Despite bipartisan efforts to improve internet access, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is imposing unnecessary and ideological requirements on a new broadband deployment program. (uschamber.com)
  • The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is imposing unnecessary and ideological requirements on broadband deployment, including unfairly favoring unions and government-run broadband, and imposing a confusing patchwork of regulations. (uschamber.com)
  • Adding unnecessary requirements to broadband funding makes the program more expensive, making it harder to connect all Americans. (uschamber.com)
  • The Administration's addition of unnecessary and politically driven requirements to the broadband grant program in the IIJA may cause the program to fail. (uschamber.com)
  • In a December speech, he expressed confidence that the 2015 net neutrality rules would be undone and said the FCC needed to take a "weed whacker" to what he considered unnecessary regulations that hold back investment and innovation. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Neutrality undermines wealth maximization, including content maximization. (cei.org)
  • Despite IIJA's neutrality in respect to the type of broadband provider, the program undermines this neutrality to promote government-owned networks by imposing burdensome requirements as well as pressuring states and territories to waive laws that place restrictions on public sector broadband providers, even if they predate IIJA enactment. (uschamber.com)
  • FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai also railed against the agency's decision as intrusive government regulation. (engadget.com)
  • Under current chairman Ajit Pai, the FCC spiked the effort to go after AT&T, even before it began rolling out a plan to undo the net neutrality rules entirely. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The industry group USTelecom--The Broadband Association, which opposes net neutrality regulations, criticized the proposed rules. (mediapost.com)
  • Today, USTelecom is among several parties to formally request Supreme Court review of the Federal Communications Commission's 2015 Open Internet Order, which reversed decades of established legal precedent and common sense by reclassifying broadband access as a public utility service. (ustelecom.org)
  • The question USTelecom presents today in a "Petition for a Writ of Certiorari," which is a request for the high court to hear the case, is this: "Whether the Federal Communications Commission lacked the clear congressional authorization required to assert plenary authority over a large and growing segment of the economy by imposing public-utility, common-carrier obligations on broadband Internet access service. (ustelecom.org)
  • In the cert petition, USTelecom argues that the Supreme Court should "grant the petition and vacate the D.C. Circuit's decision below to vindicate Congress's scheme of sharply limited regulation for broadband and, more generally, to ensure that courts do not permit unelected agencies to expand their regulatory powers over important aspects of the national economy without clear congressional authorization. (ustelecom.org)
  • Given that the FCC is currently reexamining these rules through a new proceeding it launched in May which could moot this challenge, USTelecom states that "[i]f the FCC issues new regulations returning broadband Internet access service to its proper classification, petitioners will file a supplemental brief explaining why the Court should grant the petition and vacate the D.C. Circuit's opinion on mootness principles. (ustelecom.org)
  • USTelecom argues that Congress did not authorize the FCC to adopt regulations that can have such a far-reaching implication on the U.S. economy. (ustelecom.org)
  • That's what ultimately pushed the agency to reclassify broadband -- now that it's viewed as a utility like telephone service, the FCC is free to make stronger regulatory decisions. (engadget.com)
  • Earlier this month, the FCC released a proposal to restore net neutrality rules and asked for public comment on whether to reclassify broadband instead of taking an approach advocated by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler that would allow broadband providers to engage in "commercially reasonable" traffic management. (computerworld.com)
  • The move would reclassify broadband internet as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, opening the industry up to more expansive oversight from the FCC, akin to its authority over voice providers. (broadbandbreakfast.com)
  • Where it became controversial is when the previous FCC imagined it needed to reclassify broadband as a Title II common carrier monopoly service for competitive companies. (heartland.org)
  • On Monday, a coalition of senators urged Rosenworcel to "expeditiously" reclassify broadband as a utility. (mediapost.com)
  • The rules would reclassify broadband access as an essential service on par with other utilities like water or power. (ctvnews.ca)
  • It's a good day for proponents of an open internet: The Federal Communications Commission just approved its long-awaited network neutrality plan, which reclassifies broadband internet as a Title II public utility and gives the agency more regulatory power in the process. (engadget.com)
  • Net neutrality proponents now claim Title II utility regulation of broadband is net neutrality," Cleland said. (heartland.org)
  • 3) For Net neutrality proponents, "fairness" always trumps competition / innovation, regardless of the costs . (techliberation.com)
  • The FCC disavowed its authority to regulate broadband Internet service providers under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, an authority that was necessary to support federal net neutrality regulations. (eff.org)
  • Following that ruling, the FCC, with support from public interest groups, considered classifying broadband Internet as a "common carrier service," placing it in the same category as telephone service, which the FCC has clear authority to regulate. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • Freezing today's Internet into a regulated public utility via net neutrality's FCC-serving price-and-entry regulation would obviously slow investment and innovation-meaning fewer new companies, networking deals, products and technologies-but will ultimately hurt content companies too. (cei.org)
  • Heavy-handed regulation under Title II could significantly inhibit new investments in broadband networks and limit new innovation and business models. (cisco.com)
  • These weak and unclear net neutrality regulations threaten innovation and free speech. (helpnetsecurity.com)
  • We encourage Congress to provide long-term regulatory certainty by enacting legislation that permanently preserves net neutrality and prevents federal agencies from stifling innovation through overly burdensome regulatory regimes," Neil Bradley, U.S. Chamber of Commerce senior vice president, said in a news release. (newstribune.com)
  • They are bold enough to make the ridiculous claim , against all logic, that Net Neutrality will, among other things "stifle growth and innovation. (swcp.com)
  • The claim is patently ludicrous because innovation is greatest dread of all such near-monopolies , even more than regulation. (swcp.com)
  • This would 'allow policymakers to address any market failures, if they were to occur, without the adoption of broad, anticipatory regulations that curb innovation and broadband deployment,' Tauke said. (verizon.com)
  • It now appears that those reports were wrong-mostly: The FCC now plans to classify broadband Internet as a Title II service and use Title II regulatory authority to enforce Net neutrality . (reason.com)
  • The U.S. Chamber in comments to the FCC has argued that it is possible to enact policies that promote net neutrality while refraining from treating broadband providers like public utilities under Title II of the telephone-monopoly era 1934 Communications Act. (uschamber.com)
  • Net neutrality is the principle that all traffic on the internet should be treated equally, regardless of whether you're checking Facebook, posting pictures to Instagram or streaming movies from Netflix or Amazon. (cnet.com)
  • Net neutrality is the principle that internet providers treat all web traffic equally, and it's pretty much how the internet has worked since its creation. (ctvnews.ca)
  • In early October 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its ruling in Mozilla Corporation vs Federal Communications Commission , the case that challenged the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of network neutrality rules (the Restoring Internet Freedom Order ) and reclassification of broadband internet access service as an "information service" rather than a "telecommunications service. (benton.org)
  • With respect to public safety incidents described in the Mozilla decision and elsewhere, would the providers' allegedly harmful conduct have been prohibited under the old network neutrality rules? (benton.org)
  • Network neutrality has become a contentious issue both in Europe and the US. (ssrn.com)
  • This article compares nascent American and European network neutrality policy in terms of regulatory error costs. (ssrn.com)
  • However, analysis shows that categorical regulation misrepresents the complexity of network neutrality and emerging broadband markets. (ssrn.com)
  • European telecommunications policy on the other hand may have the potential to employ a dynamic regulatory mechanism that allows for targeting more regulatory errors at once, but fails to live up to this promise with network neutrality. (ssrn.com)
  • Therefore, this article recommends US policymakers to develop an analytic and dynamic regulatory model for network neutrality, which builds on European precedent yet learns from European regulatory mistakes. (ssrn.com)
  • With its National Broadband Plan, the FCC should position itself to monitor broadband markets, and deal with network neutrality in a flexible and transparent manner. (ssrn.com)
  • That is why I support network neutrality. (engadget.com)
  • FAQ: What's the FCC vote on network neutrality all about? (macworld.com)
  • Network neutrality activists-by the thousands-claim that not regulating network owners will leave the Internet at the mercy of a few large companies, when the activists' backers are themselves large companies. (cei.org)
  • The wealth, infrastructure, content, options, consumer benefits and security to be created in a non-neutral regime vastly exceed what "neutrality" can sustain on a regulated network. (cei.org)
  • A network in which government regulates infrastructure is one in which content regulation is easier as well. (cei.org)
  • The commission's proposal chooses not to enforce 26 of the most onerous Title II provisions, like explicit rate regulation and network unbundling. (broadbandbreakfast.com)
  • Net neutrality is ill-conceived in that it thinks about neutrality in terms of bits and bytes in the network, not neutrality of customer experience," McAuliffe said. (heartland.org)
  • Only with Title II classification can the FCC prohibit unreasonable and unjust practices of broadband providers, effectively protect network resiliency and national security, ensure service quality, expand internet access, and combat anti-competitive practices," Senators Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and 25 others said in a letter to the FCC head. (mediapost.com)
  • To make sure the rules stood up to court challenges, the agency also put broadband in the same legal classification as the old-style telephone network , which gave the FCC more power to regulate it. (cnet.com)
  • That's something that's particularly problematic on the net neutrality front when anti-competitive behavior is routinely hidden behind bogus claims of routine network management . (techdirt.com)
  • Derrick Smith explains the ins and outs of the headend facility which routes signals and allows them to travel faster on Midiacom's broadband Internet network. (newstribune.com)
  • Chairman Pai has put the brakes on new internet privacy rules, broadband subsidies for the poor and investigations into potential network neutrality violations. (vox.com)
  • In the past few weeks alone, Pai has acted to halt numerous policies and actions related to the Obama-era network neutrality rules, which he may eventually roll back entirely. (vox.com)
  • Pai dropped FCC investigations into mobile companies for privileging some websites and services over others by not counting their usage against a customer's data plan, a potential violation of the network neutrality rules. (vox.com)
  • In December, Pai said he wanted to "take a weed whacker" to the regulations and threatened that network neutrality's "days are numbered. (vox.com)
  • A record-breaking four million people commented in the FCC proceedings in favor of the network neutrality rules. (vox.com)
  • Moreover, government-owned networks can distort competition, especially considering that the same state and local governments that are in part responsible for granting permits to broadband providers may also be building or maintaining their own competing network. (uschamber.com)
  • The program requires that all funding recipients must ensure that broadband providers do not "impose unjust or unreasonable network management practices" akin to net neutrality requirements. (uschamber.com)
  • The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control … a lightweight but enforceable neutrality rule is needed to ensure that the Internet continues to thrive. (debatewise.org)
  • This case shows how, by installing data caps on internet access and then collecting tolls to get around them, broadband providers can leverage their bottleneck position in internet infrastructure to be powerful gatekeepers of online expression. (umich.edu)
  • So in order to preserve application performance, it may become necessary to buy service-level agreements from providers or alter corporate infrastructure to squeeze better performance out of lower quality broadband services, he says. (macworld.com)
  • Reporter Jake Neenan, who covers broadband infrastructure and broadband funding, is a recent graduate of the Columbia Journalism School. (broadbandbreakfast.com)
  • They believe that existing broadband infrastructure is infused with structural racism. (city-journal.org)
  • Recent data on prices provides important perspective regarding the $65 billion that Congress and President Biden will now spend on broadband infrastructure over the next ten years. (pacificresearch.org)
  • to help ensure that every American has access to reliable high-speed internet through a historic investment in broadband infrastructure deployment. (pacificresearch.org)
  • Put differently, the $79.4 billion that the private sector companies invested in building out the broadband infrastructure in just one year (2020) is more than the federal government will spend on these investments over ten years ($65 billion). (pacificresearch.org)
  • Further, as documented by FCC analyses , the private sector infrastructure investments have helped approximately five million homes gain access to fiber broadband services. (pacificresearch.org)
  • It means access to the internet because broadband is the most important infrastructure of our time," she said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. (mediapost.com)
  • Without adding to the deficit, policymakers can generate $1.1 trillion in private and public investment over 10 years by eliminating mandates that drive up the cost of current spending, reforming regulations that hamper infrastructure projects, and refocusing the federal government's role on national priorities. (heritage.org)
  • Reducing regulations that hamper infrastructure production will increase investment in infrastructure by $562 billion while creating immediate and long-term jobs. (heritage.org)
  • Reducing regulations that hamper both public and private infrastructure production will both make project delivery less expensive and investment more effective at prioritizing valuable projects. (heritage.org)
  • In 2021, Congress passed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which allocated $42 billion to close the digital divide, the largest ever public sector investment in broadband. (uschamber.com)
  • Broadband providers have invested about $1.5 trillion in fixed and mobile infrastructure since 1996 and the largest broadband providers are leaders in domestic capital expenditures among all American companies. (ustelecom.org)
  • There is no such proposal, but without a regulation this type of fee would not be prohibited, Boothby says. (macworld.com)
  • In light of the FCC initiating yet another attempt to regulate the Internet, upending long-standing precedent and imposing monopoly-era telephone rules and obligations on the 21st Century broadband marketplace, Congress must take action to put an end to this misguided regulatory proposal," he said. (computerworld.com)
  • In the past month, the FCC has received more than 46,000 comments on the net neutrality proposal. (computerworld.com)
  • The draft proposal would classify broadband as a Title II service under the Telecommunications Act of 1934, giving the commission more regulatory muscle over the industry - particularly ensuring internet providers cannot throttle or speed up traffic to certain sites. (broadbandbreakfast.com)
  • WASHINGTON, October 19, 2023 - The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to move forward with its proposal to reinstate net neutrality rules. (broadbandbreakfast.com)
  • Federal Communications Commission chair Jessica Rosenworcel said Tuesday she is moving forward with a proposal for sweeping broadband regulations that would restore the Obama-era open internet rules -- including bans on blocking or throttling content, and on charging higher fees for prioritized delivery. (mediapost.com)
  • This proposal is set for a vote on December 21st, and if passed, the FCC will be able to regulate "net neutrality. (lpin.org)
  • The CDT proposal, available here , would require broadband providers to treat all Internet content and services equally. (cio.com)
  • But the executive - a former member of Congress - expressed concern that efforts to add controversial Internet regulations to the bipartisan proposal could endanger its passage, costing consumers more than $8 billion a year in lost cable savings. (verizon.com)
  • Reuters reported Pai told telecommunications companies' representatives on April 4 he plans to reverse former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler's "net neutrality" rules, enacted in 2015, and replace them with voluntary agreements with internet service providers to refrain from obstructing or slowing consumers' data transfers. (heartland.org)
  • WASHINGTON, September 27, 2023 - The telecom and software industries returned to familiar arguments in reaction to the Federal Communications Commission's announcement that it is looking to revive net neutrality rules. (broadbandbreakfast.com)
  • This day of action was promoted by net neutrality supporters in opposition to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) efforts to roll back the public-utility style regulation of broadband. (uschamber.com)
  • Net neutrality, in theory, is the idea that internet service providers should not block, slow, or prioritize certain internet traffic. (freedomworks.org)
  • A group of 32 Internet service providers says in a new FCC filing that reversing the net neutrality rules will ensure that providers "continue to invest vigorously in stronger, faster networks for consumers. (mediapost.com)
  • Internet service providers, however, claim that the regulations place more burdens and costs on them than on other internet entities such as search engines and social networks. (csoonline.com)
  • The FCC has proposed several regulations that would stop internet service providers from blocking or promoting any website over another. (lpin.org)
  • Champions of net neutrality believe that governments and internet service providers should treat all information exchanged on the internet equally. (debatewise.org)
  • Congress is unlikely to pass legislation regulating the activities of broadband Internet service providers this year. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • But, telling opponents of Facebook or Twitter censorship to start their own platforms is no different than telling net neutrality supporters to start their own broadband companies. (forbes.com)
  • In that order, the FCC chose, despite massive evidence to the contrary, to classify broadband as an "information service" rather than a "telecommunications service. (eff.org)
  • On Sunday, California Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed into law extreme legislation designed to protect so called "net neutrality. (freedomworks.org)
  • The legislation would give all Internet businesses the certainty they need to continue investing in broadband networks and services, Latta added. (computerworld.com)
  • The legislation may get a positive reception in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which has opposed past FCC efforts to pass net neutrality rules. (computerworld.com)
  • Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have pushed to pass legislation to restore net neutrality regulations. (cnet.com)
  • Simply put, net neutrality legislation endangers both the future of video choice and the accelerated broadband investment that is just beginning to gain traction. (verizon.com)
  • and Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota earlier this week called on Pai not to take any actions that undermine the broadband privacy rules. (csoonline.com)
  • They say the rules can undermine investment in broadband and introduced uncertainty about what were acceptable business practices. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The D.C. Circuit agreed with litigants that the FCC, without reasoned consideration, took broadband outside the current statutory scheme governing pole attachments which covers telecommunications services, not information services. (benton.org)
  • The bill, introduced late Wednesday by Representative Bob Latta, an Ohio Republican, would block the FCC from reclassifying broadband as a common-carrier telecom service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. (computerworld.com)
  • Thus reclassifying the Internet as Title II telecommunications is actually un-forbearance (an increase in regulation with partial forbearing). (precursorblog.com)
  • The proposed rules would return fixed and mobile broadband service to its status as an essential telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Since California's Attorney General Xavier Becerra has vowed that the state will defend its new net neutrality law against the federal government's suit, the state will soon find itself in a position of simultaneously arguing effectively contradictory positions regarding federal preemption of state and local internet regulation. (freedomworks.org)
  • The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt to bar enforcement of California's gold standard state net neutrality law. (eff.org)
  • Even without the explicit preemption contained in the Restoring Internet Freedom Order, California's case for imposing its own net neutrality regulations would still be utterly hopeless. (freedomworks.org)
  • Although some argue that the participant websites did not make their net neutrality efforts easy to find online , the truth remains that most Americans are generally not motivated to become net neutrality activists. (uschamber.com)
  • Many net neutrality activists would have you believe the internet is a green pasture of freedom in which information disseminates freely. (debatewise.org)
  • The Federal Communications Commission Notice of Inquiry seeking input on "Broadband Industry Practices," (primarily net neutrality) arises in an important context. (cei.org)
  • The data security provisions whose operation have now been halted in view of a stay petition by providers include the requirement that broadband internet access providers engage in reasonable data security practices and provide data breach notification requirements. (csoonline.com)
  • The net neutrality rules gave the FCC power to go after companies for business practices that weren't explicitly banned as well. (ctvnews.ca)
  • For example, the Obama FCC said that 'zero rating' practices by AT&T violated net neutrality. (ctvnews.ca)
  • This work is expected to result in greater awareness of practices and innovations in the region on increasing broadband penetration. (lirneasia.net)
  • This requirement is unclear and exacerbates the challenge that broadband practices may be regulated differently across states and territories, creating a patchwork of laws. (uschamber.com)
  • Broadband providers remain subject to the fundamental public-utility requirements of providing services at what an agency or court determines after the fact to be reasonable rates and practices. (ustelecom.org)
  • Do broadband providers have policies in place that facilitate or prioritize public safety communications? (benton.org)
  • Are concerns or consequences of broadband providers' possible actions different for public-safety-to-public-safety communications, such as onsite incident response or Emergency Operations Center communications, versus public safety communications made to or from the public? (benton.org)
  • The rules prevent broadband providers' blatant discrimination but leave open possibilities for less obvious but still troubling preferential treatment online. (umich.edu)
  • This article considers AT&T's Sponsored Data program-which charges online content providers to exempt their traffic from users' mobile broadband data caps-as an example of a subtle erosion of net neutrality that the FCC should address. (umich.edu)
  • While Pai did not advocate applying net neutrality to edge providers, both Democrats and Republicans have. (forbes.com)
  • Reclassification would heap 80 years of regulatory baggage on broadband providers, restricting their flexibility to innovate and placing them at the mercy of a government agency. (computerworld.com)
  • But 30 percent of Americans only have one choice for uncapped broadband over 10Mbps-something the broadband providers refuse to acknowledge. (pcmag.com)
  • The broadband providers are deeply disconnected from the real world. (pcmag.com)
  • At least for now, anyway, the agency will not subject broadband providers to the full slate of Title II regulations. (reason.com)
  • Broadband providers must make "affirmative efforts," as one group puts it , "to remediate historic inequities. (city-journal.org)
  • Do we want our broadband providers selling off what we do and where we go online? (mediapost.com)
  • Without Title II authority, the FCC is left in a position where it must beg for pledges and promises from broadband providers to participate in closing the digital divide. (mediapost.com)
  • The 2015 rules adopted under FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a Democrat, prevented broadband providers from blocking or slowing access to the internet, or charging for faster access. (cnet.com)
  • The regulation prohibited broadband providers from blocking or slowing traffic and banned them from offering so-called fast lanes to companies willing to pay extra to reach consumers more quickly than competitors. (cnet.com)
  • As a consequence, today there aren't rules that prevent broadband providers from slowing or blocking your access to the internet. (cnet.com)
  • In a 2-1 vote that went along party lines, the FCC voted Wednesday to stay temporarily one part of privacy rules passed in October that would give consumers the right to decide how their data is used and shared by broadband providers. (csoonline.com)
  • Law professor Tim Wu, now at Columbia University, coined the term 'net neutrality' in 2003 to argue for government rules that would prevent big internet providers from discriminating against technology and services that clashed with other aspects of their business. (ctvnews.ca)
  • A federal appeals court upheld the rules in 2016 after broadband providers sued. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The new regulation brings a complete ban on roaming charges for using mobile phones abroad in the EU, and will force internet providers to provide users the download and upload speeds they signed up for, or if not, allows them to terminate the contract or choose to get compensated for the discrepancy. (helpnetsecurity.com)
  • The FCC is currently in the process of finalizing new regulations on "net neutrality," or how broadband Internet providers can treat traffic on their networks. (cnn.com)
  • It asserts that federal regulations on internet access are truly unjustified since providers have not shown any significant signs of web discrimination. (lpin.org)
  • The proposals differ in their approaches, but both would allow broadband providers such as AT&T and Comcast to separate part of their broadband pipes for services they or their partners offer. (cio.com)
  • But on the public Internet, broadband providers would be required to treat all content equally. (cio.com)
  • The CDT wants a "narrowly tailored" set of net neutrality rules, even though large broadband providers have questioned the need for new regulations, said Leslie Harris, CDT's executive director. (cio.com)
  • Broadband providers have said there's no need for new rules because there's no evidence of them blocking or impairing competing content, but a lack of broadband competition makes for a "significant risk" of that happening, Harris said. (cio.com)
  • If Congress fails to now pass a net neutrality law, it will be difficult to come back later and force broadband providers to retroactively change their business plans if problems do occur, she said. (cio.com)
  • If broadband providers can set their own transport standards, the Internet would stop being a public medium, he said. (cio.com)
  • The FCC voted 3-2 Dec. 14 to repeal regulations which prohibited broadband internet providers from blocking websites or charging extra for higher-quality service. (newstribune.com)
  • The big broadband providers particularly find rival services that use up their bandwidth for content they don't control most annoying. (swcp.com)
  • Net neutrality , the concept that internet providers should treat all data that travels over their networks equally, became law in 2015 after the FCC decided to regulate the internet like a basic utility. (vox.com)
  • Testifying at a hearing on the Communications, Consumer Choice and Broadband Act of 2006, Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy and communications, said the bill would spur competition by reforming the television franchise process that currently delays the market entry of insurgent providers like Verizon. (verizon.com)
  • The program pressures state and broadband providers to align with the Administration's favored union-friendly policies. (uschamber.com)
  • Pai opposed online privacy regulations that force broadband providers to ask consumers for permission before using their data, saying they are more onerous than the requirements for internet companies like Google and Facebook. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Before taking that action, the commission held discussions with several of the largest broadband providers and decided to let Congress try to pass a law regulating the industry. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • Several provisions in Waxman's bill, including one that would have prevented broadband from being classified as a common carrier service, mirrored proposals put forth by the broadband providers in their discussions with the FCC. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • Almost any type of regulatory framework would be a good thing, because the broadband providers would know what they could or could not do. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • After 18 months of negotiations, the European Parliament, Council and Commission reached two agreements on the end to roaming charges and on the first EU-wide rules on net neutrality on 30 June 2015, to be completed by an overhaul of EU telecoms rules in 2016. (wikipedia.org)
  • This regulation essentially provides an economic preference to a politically powerful constituency that, as is true of typical rent-seekers, wishes protection against market forces. (precursorblog.com)
  • Essentially, internet users will be able to search any website they want without discretion from broadband companies. (lpin.org)
  • An article published by The Ludwig von Mises Institute , discusses how net neutrality laws essentially decide who will have the responsibility of managing networks. (lpin.org)
  • Regulation (EC) No 1211/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 established the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) and the Office Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications. (wikipedia.org)
  • The European Parliament voted yesterday for a Regulation on a Single Market for Electronic Communications. (helpnetsecurity.com)
  • Will this FCC legal team learn from the legal mistakes of their predecessors and ensure the FCC has a thorough and a sufficient legal record to justify their legal theories, given that the FCC already has failed twice in crafting legal net neutrality regulations in Comcast v. FCC in 2010 and again in Verizon v. FCC in 2014? (precursorblog.com)
  • On the other are the big broadband carriers - Comcast , Verizon , and AT&T in particular - who are throwing bushels of cash at Congress trying to inspire fear. (swcp.com)
  • Progressives attempt to exploit a statute to facilitate a government takeover of the broadband industry. (city-journal.org)
  • A striking example of this process is playing out at the Federal Communications Commission, where progressives, latching on to an obscure provision in one of Congress's latest mega-bills, seek a government takeover of the broadband industry. (city-journal.org)
  • More recently, the FCC voted 3-2 in 2015 to categorize broadband as a Title II service and impose some common carrier rules, including bans on blocking or throttling traffic. (mediapost.com)
  • Amusingly, AT&T lawyers tried to argue in court that the company's "common carrier" status - the same status it has fought viciously against on the net neutrality front - exempted it from FTC authority almost entirely under Section 5 of the FTC Act. (techdirt.com)
  • But instead of adopting light-touch regulation on this vital segment of the economy, the FCC asserted for the first time the authority to impose a common-carrier regime that was designed for a bygone era. (ustelecom.org)
  • Do the FCC and other governmental authorities have other tools at their disposal that are better suited to addressing potential public safety concerns than classification of broadband as a Title II service? (benton.org)
  • All of that led to President Barack Obama announcing his support for Title II broadband reclassification last fall, which put the FCC in a pretty awkward spot. (engadget.com)
  • Nonetheless, they say carriers should be "free from the bureaucratic straightjacket of outdated regulations known as Title II. (mediapost.com)
  • The specific argument is against Title II, utility-style regulation, but the FCC was forced into that when a court struck down its earlier, lighter set of rules in 2014. (pcmag.com)
  • Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that, according to multiple anonymous sources, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski had decided to abandon the idea of implementing Net neutrality regulations by changing the classification of broadband Internet from a Title I "information service" to a more regulation-friendly Title II "telecommunication service. (reason.com)
  • More on Net neutrality and Title I/Title II here and here . (reason.com)
  • President Obama's unusual high-profile call for Title II utility regulation of the Internet, after the FCC NPRM proposed a different Section 706 course, creates a new increased need for a robust record to withstand charges of arbitrariness and capriciousness, especially given Judge Silberman's Verizon v. FCC final warning to the FCC. (precursorblog.com)
  • When all FCC forbearance precedents to date have been narrow and protracted, what evidence or precedent supports the notion that sweeping FCC Title II forbearance can be accomplished legally and expeditiously to not slow broadband deployment or reduce broadband competition? (precursorblog.com)
  • The potential rules will include a key provision reclassifying broadband as a utility service, regulated under Title II of the Communications Act. (mediapost.com)
  • Treating broadband as a Title II utility is a dangerous and costly solution in search of a problem," Jonathan Spalter, president & CEO of the group, stated. (mediapost.com)
  • The voices arguing for Title II ignore the fact that investment in broadband declined for the first time-other than the dot.com bubble burst and the Great Recession-in the year after Title II. (uschamber.com)
  • The Commission should give weight to those substantive comments which provide technical and legal expertise and follow the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals roadmap to achieving net neutrality without using Title II as outlined in the 2014 Verizon case. (uschamber.com)
  • The heart of this petition is the question whether the FCC overstepped its authority in 2015 when it adopted the Open Internet Order, which reclassified broadband internet access service under Title II of the Communications Act. (ustelecom.org)
  • A]lthough the FCC has purported to "forbear" from some aspects of Title II, the core of public utility regulation still remains. (ustelecom.org)
  • To what extent do public safety officials (at both the state and local level) even rely on mass-market retail broadband services covered by the Restoring Internet Freedom Order (i.e., services that only promise "best efforts" in the delivery of content), rather than dedicated networks with quality-of-service guarantees (i.e., enterprise or business data services) for public safety applications? (benton.org)
  • The FCC wants to refresh the record on how the changes adopted in the Restoring Internet Freedom Order might affect the regulation of pole attachments in states subject to federal regulation. (benton.org)
  • Contained in the Order was a provision explicitly preempting states and local governments from enacting their own net neutrality rules. (freedomworks.org)
  • The relevant provision directs the FCC to adopt rules to prevent "digital discrimination of [broadband] access based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin. (city-journal.org)
  • A finding of unlawful discrimination can stand, the groups contend, on a statistical difference in broadband access between any two communities-or even between any two census blocks. (city-journal.org)
  • Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic face digital divides in their society, and are confronted with the potentially conflicting policy goals to incentivize private investment in next generation broadband, while maintaining 'neutral' and competitive broadband networks. (ssrn.com)
  • It compares its investment in broadband to various government projects, not to other private industries. (pcmag.com)
  • the only response will be an eventual decline in the growth of and investment in the internet companies that currently support these regulations. (lpin.org)
  • Radical net neutrality proposals would chill the investment climate for broadband networks, deter and delay broadband rollout, and lock in today's Internet architecture and levels of performance,' he said. (verizon.com)
  • This ill-defined program opens the door to additional state-level intervention in the broadband marketplace, which could include solutions such as rate regulation that will hinder deployment and investment. (uschamber.com)
  • It instructs the commission to monitor the marketplace and provide information to Congress and consumers regarding the need, if any, for Internet regulations. (verizon.com)
  • Bureaucrats can use their power to bypass Congress and the usual process of creating regulations to push their own political ideas, rather than focusing on the bipartisan goal of closing the digital divide. (uschamber.com)
  • Congress, in general, is sensitive to the notion of placing new regulations on business in a down economy," Mike Jude, a senior analyst with Frost & Sullivan , told the E-Commerce Times. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • We are a group of scholars, law professors, and/or economists who teach and write in the business law area, broadly defined, and including especially antitrust, industrial organization, and technology regulation. (truthonthemarket.com)
  • But, far more likely, Wheeler changed his stance as the tide turned in favor of regulating broadband as a utility. (engadget.com)
  • This kind of freedom that the anti-net neutrality crowd is after has not existed in any industry in the U.S. since the Gilded Age, when the likes of John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan exercised monopolistic control over their respective industries to keep the playing field stacked in their favor. (debatewise.org)
  • There is ample legal justification to apply anti-censorship restrictions based on net neutrality principles. (forbes.com)
  • Reclassifying broadband would bring restrictions on adjusting internet traffic speeds and other heightened fairness standards. (broadbandbreakfast.com)
  • Net neutrality is just another way of saying "more government restrictions," Cleland says. (heartland.org)
  • 2) Choice is largely irrelevant to the pro-regulation Net neutrality crowd . (techliberation.com)
  • Specifically, such Internet regulation could 'prohibit us from offering customers the unique and secure platform required for next-generation services' and 'prohibit us from offering a competing video service to consumers,' Tauke warned. (verizon.com)
  • Kindly, the U.S. Court of Appeals has provided the FCC a roadmap to follow to legally justify their net neutrality rules under Section 706. (precursorblog.com)
  • Federal Communication Commission net neutrality rules have the potential to save businesses money in ways that range from heading off potential new Internet access charges to opening up low-cost, high-bandwidth services distinguished by superior quality of service. (macworld.com)
  • The agenda includes examination of managed or specialized services such as IP TV that run over the same networks as general broadband Internet services. (macworld.com)
  • Instead, according to the memo, "For the broadband access services that a majority of on-line consumers use to reach the Internet, the Commission refrains from regulation when possible, but will step in when necessary to protect consumers and fair competition. (reason.com)
  • The second purpose of the spending, "help lower prices for internet services" could be counterproductive because it fails to recognize that broadband prices are already becoming more affordable over time. (pacificresearch.org)
  • The price increase trends for broadband services stand in stark contrast to the trends in inflation during the same period. (pacificresearch.org)
  • Prices for internet services and electronic information (a broader category than just broadband services) grew a much smaller 3.1% during this same period. (pacificresearch.org)
  • For instance, the FCC said in a 2005 policy statement that broadband subscribers should have the ability to access all lawful content, applications and services. (mediapost.com)
  • Broadband services that divide content being sent over the Internet would destroy the standards that are the foundation of the current Internet, Johnson said. (cio.com)
  • Net neutrality provides for the free circulation of data and services. (debatewise.org)
  • The real issue here is that the broadband industry, like everyone, would prefer to be self-policing. (pcmag.com)
  • But the part of the regulation that is heavily disputed is the one dealing with the issue of net neutrality. (helpnetsecurity.com)
  • The Federal Communications Commission chairman, Julius Genachowski, released a statement on December 1st addressing the issue of net neutrality. (lpin.org)
  • Broadband access is an overwhelmingly bipartisan issue and is vital to ensuring millions of Americans are not left behind in the digital economy. (uschamber.com)
  • The biggest issue of controversy surrounding net neutrality is how to achieve a free and open internet. (uschamber.com)
  • At best, net neutrality is a thorny issue. (debatewise.org)
  • Senator Al Franken of Minnesota has spoken out about net neutrality, saying it is "the first amendment issue of our time. (debatewise.org)
  • The real issue is how can we move to a real broadband economy? (ecommercetimes.com)
  • Most Americans agree that net neutrality principles are good for the internet and for our economy. (uschamber.com)
  • Here, Americans generally agree when it comes to the core principles of neutrality. (uschamber.com)
  • The court remanded the net neutrality order back to the FCC on three discrete issues: public safety, pole attachments, and Lifeline. (benton.org)
  • But challenges to the net neutrality repeal order argued that the FCC failed to "consider the implications for public safety of its changed regulatory posture. (benton.org)
  • While this sounds good in theory, net neutrality as a public policy is far from ideal. (freedomworks.org)
  • The agency is aiming to alleviate fears of overregulation through forbearance, a process that lets it legally ignore certain regulations that other public utilities have to deal with. (engadget.com)
  • to codify current policy and to ensure that the Internet continues to grow and remains open and free from the burdens of outdated, public utility regulation. (computerworld.com)
  • Net neutrality mandates imply that private control by dominant vendors is against the public interest. (cei.org)
  • We need an FCC that clearly accepts and asserts its authority to protect consumers in the broadband market," Chris Lewis, president and CEO at Public Knowledge, said Tuesday. (mediapost.com)
  • Now the FCC is soliciting public comment as to whether or not it should continue to halt the expansion of the broadband subsidy. (vox.com)
  • There is tangible evidence of real harm caused by treating broadband like a public utility. (uschamber.com)
  • Given those circumstances, some public interest groups - arguing that Net neutrality is essential to ensuring that consumers have free access to the broadband Internet - are calling for the FCC to step up and impose rules governing the industry. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • Even ignoring the considerable judgment calls enforcing "fair" competition would require , here's the problem: When FCC staffers claim they're not going to regulate the Internet, what they actually mean is that, at least with regard to Net neutrality rules, they're not going to regulate the content layer. (reason.com)
  • Regardless of the unintended harms to consumers, net neutrality regulations are an outright assault on the rights, particularly the property rights, of private companies who are severely restricted in their ability to control the networks they've created. (freedomworks.org)
  • The government agency overseeing the market (Bundesnetzagentur) stated, in general these plans are in alignment with net neutrality but forced the companies to adopt some changes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Verizon's legal victory over the FCC last year made it seem like the big companies -- who would benefit the most from lax internet regulations -- had pretty much won the war for the web. (engadget.com)
  • Without net neutrality, the incumbents who provide access to the Internet would be able to pick winners or losers in the market," the companies write. (mediapost.com)
  • A recent study by Broadband Now calculated the average price of different broadband speeds across 50 companies between the first quarter of 2016 and the fourth quarter of 2021. (pacificresearch.org)
  • At stake in this battle is who, if anyone, will police the internet to ensure that broadband companies aren't abusing their power as gatekeepers. (cnet.com)
  • Big telecom companies have fought regulations fiercely in court. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The amendments to the regulation were supported by many tech companies (many streaming ones, like Netflix), Sir Tim Berners-Lee , and many others, but apparently MEPs were more concerned about pushing the ban on roaming charges that net neutrality. (helpnetsecurity.com)