More than three years ago, Jessica Rosenworcel could only react in horror as her Republican counterparts on the Federal Communications Commission voted ...
The FCC voted to repeal the Obama-era internet regulations banning internet *service* providers, like AT&T and Verizon, from throttling or blocking traffic and ...
In the latest sign of detente between the federal government and California, the U.S. Department of Justice has withdrawn a federal lawsuit that sought to revoke ...
If it wasn't obvious before, the coronavirus pandemic makes clear the need for an open internet with broadband access for all Americans. The U.S. Department ...
If it wasn't obvious before, the coronavirus pandemic makes clear the need for an open internet with broadband access for all Americans. The U.S. Department ...
More fans of network neutrality rules have asked the Federal Communication Commission to return its bright-line rules against blocking, throttling and paid ...
The Federal Communications Commission should restore the Obama-era net neutrality rules in order to protect public safety, officials in Santa Clara, California ...
As the FCC gets closer to restoring net neutrality, a new and bizarre GOP talking point has emerged. It goes something like this: if you're going to restore some ...
The Federal Communications Commission should restore the Obama-era net neutrality rules, the industry trade group Incompas urges in a new petition to the ...
Charter Communications had requested the right to impose a data cap on its customers during Ajit Pai's term as chairman of the FCC, but with the new ...
In the latest sign of detente between the federal government and California, the U.S. Department of Justice has withdrawn a federal lawsuit that sought to revoke ...
'Many, while performing the foulest deeds, use the fairest words." How fitting that a quote by Greek philosopher Democritus can still describe the hypocrisy of big ...
February 8, 2021 – Washington insiders marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Telecommunications Act on Monday by discussing how broadband ...
President Joe Biden has an opportunity to shape one of the most important federal courts for environmental policy and other regulations after Judge David S.
New Delhi, The upcoming Apple iOS update will let users select a third-party default music *service* like Spotify when they ask to play a song using Siri. When.
The Wall Street Journal reported that CFOs are taking on sustainability measures as a means to attract new investors, lower their company's borrowing costs and ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 on Tuesday to maintain its 2017 repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules, even after a federal court ...
The revised Telecommunications Act entered into force on 1 January 2021 and takes into account the increasingly digitalized society. In particular, the revision ...
... ➤ Verizon is likely the biggest winner in the FCC's C-band auction. ➤ If Verizon paid exorbitant amounts for the spectrum, T-Mobile's acquisition of spectrum ...
February 2, 2021 – Democratic Sen. Ed Markey's communications policy focus this Congress will be on net neutrality, children and climate change, the long.
The California Public Utilities Commission challenged the outgoing Republican-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to maintain its 2017 ...
On Tuesday, October 27, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) majority approved an order responding to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of ...
For the past decade, “net neutrality” has been the catchphrase for internet freedom. “Protect your right to access what you want and how you want it on the ...
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to move to restore net neutrality rules after President-elect Joe Biden takes office, undoing the agency's ...
The results had not been released by the time of this posting -- 7:20 a.m. ET on Tuesday. “Super Bowl numbers are still being processed and verified,” Nielsen ...
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Europe's aviation sector on Thursday laid out how it could eliminate its net carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, a commitment it said would depend on policy ...
The Rupert Murdoch-owned news network files a motion to dismiss Smartmatic's blockbuster libel action. The defendant will attempt to pin responsibility for wild ...
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to appoint new FCC leaders who will work more closely with local governments and reinstate Obama-era regulations.
A Democratic Federal Communications Commission is poised to restore net neutrality rules and move aggressively to expand broadband subsidies amid the ...
The US Justice Department asked a federal judge to block California's pivotal net neutrality law. The Federal Communications Commission reversed the internet ...
In a move blasted by open internet advocates, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has circulated an order affirming the agency's 2017 ...
With more vigorous enforcement, a number of significant policy reviews and broader political movements, a diverse range of regulatory developments could ...
With the U.S. presidential election inching closer, policy experts say a change in administrations would start another new chapter in the long debate over net ...
Remember the debate over whether net neutrality regulations would stimulate or suppress broadband development? Opponents of the regulations asserted that ...
After the federal government rolled back net neutrality protections for consumers in 2017, California stepped up and passed a bill that does what FCC wouldn't: ...
With the apparent victory of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in Georgia's Senate runoff elections, Democrats are poised to control Congress in the coming term ...
Friday, February 5, 2021. Weekly Digest. Meet the New Congress: Part 1 - The House. You're reading the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society's Weekly ...
The Federal Communications Commission repealed the Obama-era "net neutrality" rules Thursday, giving internet *service* providers like Verizon, Comcast and ...
Net neutrality—the idea that internet *service* providers should treat all traffic equally—might seem quaint during the Covid-19 pandemic. Internet traffic is surging, ...
Three senators have accused AT&T of ignoring net neutrality principles by not counting the use of its new HBO Max streaming *service* against its customers' data ...
Executive Summary. The United States has largely had a hands-off approach to internet policy, yet recently policymakers, including both presidential candidates, ...
The FCC is scheduled to finalize the Restoring Internet Freedom Order (RIFO) remand on October 27, 2020. Details of the draft Remand Order demonstrate why ...
That's all for today - thanks for following along, and tune in tomorrow, where we will have live coverage of the impeachment proceedings. Some key events and ...
In early 2018, the FCC repealed policies that President Obama had put in place in 2014. Net neutrality is the common name for a series of policies put in place to ...
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday asked a federal judge to block California's net neutrality law, arguing that federal law preempts the state statute.
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) shareholders will have a reason to smile today, with the analysts making substantial upgrades to this year's forecasts.
Peaceful, placard-waving protests about Internet freedom seem almost quaint in late 2020. As the US is riven by coronavirus and racial strife, it is hard to ...
The Federal Communications Commission rejected calls from city governments requesting a comment filing extension for part of its net neutrality rollback, ...
Shutterstock Inc. has tapped John Lapham, a former top lawyer for Rover.com and Getty Images Inc., to serve as general counsel for the New York-based ...
In 2018, California passed SB-822, which recreates at the state level the net neutrality regulations repealed by the Federal Communications Commission's ...
For nearly two decades, Silicon Valley made net neutrality its highest policy priority. Under the banner of a “free and open” internet, Google, Facebook, and ...
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court said late on Thursday it will not reconsider an October ruling that largely upheld the repeal of landmark net neutrality rules, ...
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Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) circulated a new Net Neutrality Order for consideration at its October meeting. This draft Order on ...
A victory by Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 election could usher in an abrupt change in the nation's telecommunications policy, restoring so-called net neutrality ...
Net neutrality is the idea that ISPs should provide equal access to *content*, at an equal speed. The Obama-era FCC passed net neutrality regulations, which ...
In 2018, California established the gold standard of what states should be doing on net neutrality by passing a model law for other states to copy. So, naturally ...
Net neutrality proponents are gearing up to press the Biden administration to restore a set of broadband regulations that were passed in 2015, but repealed by ...
The European Union's top court has handed down its first decision on the bloc's net neutrality rules — interpreting the law as precluding the use of commercial ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's highest court on Tuesday gave its backing to the European Union's net neutrality rules which require telecoms operators to ...
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court upheld on Tuesday the government's repeal of strict regulations for the companies that connect consumers to the ...
In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rolled back federal protections for net neutrality. The FCC disavowed its authority to regulate ...
National crises often illuminate bad government policy. The COVID-19 outbreak has done so for all sorts of policies, from strict regulations on new medical tests, ...
UBTech Robotics, a developer of intelligent humanoid robots and artificial intelligence technologies, has displayed its first four-legged ox robot at the 2021 ...
The Federal Communications Commission is once again seeking comment on its repeal of its Obama-era net neutrality rules. But the new comment period isn't ...
