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Mobile Net Neutrality Moves to Policy Forefront

September 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to expand and codify the FCC’s four network neutrality principles and, to the utter horror of wireless carriers, make them apply to the mobile Internet. It all adds up to one of the greatest policy battles at the FCC in years.
– The other shoe fell this week for mobile carriers when Federal
Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said his agency would
consider extending network neutrality rules to the mobile Internet. The first shoe
fell when Barack Obama won the presidency.

Obama championed network neut…

Republicans Drop Anti-Net Neutrality Effort

September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s amendment to block FCC funding for implementing new network neutrality regulations proves short-lived.
– A move by Republican senators to block funding to the Federal Communications Commission for developing or implementing new network neutrality regulations is apparently over almost as quickly as it began.

Unhappy with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s Sept. 21 proposal to extend and codify the ag…

Wireless Carriers Lash Back at Network Neutrality Proposal

September 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal to possibly extend the agency’s network neutrality principles to the mobile Internet prompts wireless carriers to reach for their favorite phrase: Don’t regulate the Internet.
– The last time the term quot;network neutrality quot; caused this much stir
on Capitol Hill, former Sen. Ted Stevens was lecturing his fellow lawmakers on
how the Internet was a series of pipes that were somehow sacrosanct and above
government regulation. Stevens and his fellow Republicans won …

Republicans Move to Block Network Neutrality

September 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Senate Republicans react quickly to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal to expand the Federal Communications Commission’s network neutrality authority. Working on an unrelated appropriations bill, Republican senators push an amendment to deny the FCC funds for developing or implementing new Internet regulations.
– Just hours after Federal Communications
Commission Chairman Julius
Genachowski proposed expanding the network neutrality authority of the
agency Sept. 21, Senate Republicans moved to block the initiative. Using an
appropriations bill as a vehicle, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison introduced an
amendme…

FCC Cuts Bold New Course on Network Neutrality

September 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Chairman Julius Genachowski proposes the addition of new network neutrality rules that would prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against any particular Internet content or applications and require carriers such as Verizon, AT T and Comcast to fully disclose their network management practices. Unsettling wireless broadband providers, Genachowski said the FCC would fully examine the possibility of extending network neutrality rules to mobile platforms.
– Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed Sept. 21 new network neutrality rules that would require carriers to deliver broadband in a non-discriminatory manner and to disclose their network management policies in a transparent manner. Genachowski also said the FCC would …

FCC Chief Launching E-government Initiatives

September 11th, 2009 | No Comments

The FCC, which has one of the federal government’s most difficult sites to maneuver, turns to crowdsourcing, video blogging, RSS feeds, YouTube and Twitter.
– Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski continues to
bring quot;Gov 2.0 quot; change to the agency known for its difficult-to-use Website.
On Sept. 10, Genachowski posted his first video blog,
and on Sept. 11 the FCC launched the crowdsourcing platform Ideascale.

The FC…

Network Neutrality: Game On for Open Networks

August 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Two lawmakers and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski deliver a chilling message to broadband providers: Consumers have rights, beginning with network neutrality.
– Taken alone, neither the Federal Communications Commission’s quick decision
to investigate the Google Voice ban on iPhones nor the stealthy
introduction of a network neutrality bill in Congress is hardly blockbuster
news. After all, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski came to office this summer
prom…

Timothy Karr: Give Clyburn a Chance at the FCC

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Co-authored with Ben Scott Mignon Clyburn, Barack Obama’s choice to fill a vacant Democratic seat at the Federal Communications Commission, will face a confirmation hearing…