MetroPCS is the second U.S. carrier to file an appeal against the FCCs net neutrality rulings. Like Verizon, it filed with a court that previously ruled in favor of Comcast. – MetroPCS has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals
in the District of Columbia, challenging the Federal Communications
Commissions most recent rulings on net neutrality.
The nations fifth largest carrier behind Verizon
Wireless, AT amp;T, Sprint and T-Mobile, respectively i…
News Analysis: Verizon’s lawsuit against the FCC is only the first in what is sure to be a flood of legal challenges to the commission’s hastily approved net neutrality rules. – The suit by Verizon
Communications against the Federal Communications Commission on Jan. 21, 2011, should come
as a surprise to no one. The company has made no secret of its dislike for the
FCC’s involvement in the net neutrality issue, and most people expected that
one of the major Internet car…
News Analysis: Verizon has decided to wage battle against the FCC over an already-weak rule protecting net neutrality. But neither side is going to look good in a legal tussle that could set back the cause of network neutrality, one way or another. – Net neutrality and the legal
fight that surrounds it is something that cant be explained so easily. In
essence, the Federal Communications Commission believes that it has the power
to establish some basic rules on user access to the Internet. Internet providers,
however, feel that they can regul…
Verizon has filed a lawsuit against the FCC, claiming that its new net neutrality rules give the FCC authority beyond whats provided to it by Congress. – Verizon Communications is suing
the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, challenging the bodys new
rules regarding the contentious issue of net neutrality. The appeal was filed
Jan. 20 with the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit.
quot;Today’s filing is the result of …
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a major play…
News Analysis: The FCCs 194-page Report and Order discloses slightly different neutrality rules for wired and wireless service providers. The newly published rules seem sure to draw multiple legal challenges. – A Federal Communications Commission published
report on its network neutrality order shows it was true to its word
that it would codify and require open Internet access for all wired
Internet providers. The FCCs Report and Order 10-201 also revealed
that wireless providers will get slightly loos…
News Analysis: The FCC rushed to publish its Network Neutrality ruling on the agencys Web site on Dec. 23. But whether this move will breathe long life into the regulations remains doubtful. – The Federal Communications Commission published its “Open Internet” decision on Dec. 23 just two days after the 3-2 party line vote to impose network neutrality rules on Internet service providers.
The FCC rarely publishes its decisions this
quickly. After the rule has been published there is us…
The FCCs net neutrality rules go relatively easy on wireless carriers, which face unique constraints and have taken steps “toward openness,” such as the deployment of Android. – After months of debate over “net neutrality,” the Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 21 approved enforceable rules
preventing broadband companies from giving preferential treatment to
various traffic on the Internet or discriminating against rivals
content and services. The rules vary, how…
News Analysis: The Federal Communications Commission’s newly adopted rule enforcing limited network neutrality faces dim prospects for a long existence in the face of strong industry and congressional opposition. – The
new Federal Communications Commission rule approved Dec. 21 on a 3-2 party line
vote imposing limited network neutrality on Internet service providers
dissatisfied even its supporters and is likely to be nullified by lawsuits and
congressional action before it has a chance to take practical …
The FCC filed a Notice of Inquiry seeking public comment on Next Generation 911, which could enable the nations 911 services to receive texts, images and streaming video. – The Federal Communications Commission has taken a new step toward
updating the nations 911 services with the ability to receive text
messages, photos and video from mobile phones.
On Dec. 21, the FCC filed an NOI (Official Notice of Inquiry) seeking
public comment on how NG911 (Next Generatio…
Even as the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to approve the order for preserving an open Internet, the commissioners all appeared dissatisfied, saying the rules either didnt go far enough or went too far. – As expected, the Federal Communications Commission adopted the net
neutrality regulations in a 3-2 vote at its meeting on Dec. 21. However, its
clear that even amongst the majority, the commissioners were not satisfied with
the rules.
The voting followed party lines, with the three Democratic co…
An FCC commissioner draws parallels between "darkest day of the year" and the impending vote on net neutrality. –
Ahead of a scheduled vote by the Federal Communications Commission on
net neutrality which involves the FCC potentially limiting the ability of
Internet service providers such as AT amp;T, Verizon and Comcast to
restrict certain content and sites from their data networks a Republican
commiss…
The FCC will vote tomorrow morning between 10:30 and 12:30 Eastern time on a proposed rule written by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski which would gut the Internet. It would allow the big carriers to create different tiers of mobile Web access and spee…
Clyburn cautioned that net neutrality does not cause the development of two different kinds of Internet worlds. – Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Mignon Clyburn
distanced herself from the position of the bodys chairman, Julius
Genachowski, with remarks during the Practicing Law Institute’s annual
telecommunications summit, telling the audience she thought net
neutrality a concept supporting a…
While Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachoswski may have intended to clarify the FCC’s net neutrality position with the new plan, it ignored or sidestepped some key questions. – The Federal Communications
Commission’s new net neutrality framework clarified some points from its 2009
plan, but the latest proposal still is receiving scant support in Congress
and from Internet service providers.
FCC chairman Julius
Genachowski offered a sneak peek at the draft
net neut…
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s four-point outline of the net neutrality proposal calls for a "level playing field." – In a press conference where he compared the Federal Communications
Commission to a quot;cop on the beat quot; protecting an open and free
Internet, Chairman Julius Genachowski laid out the general framework for a net
neutrality proposal he said was designed to empower consumers and
entrepreneur…
The FCC says it wasnt easy to clear spectrum for digital TV, and it wont be easy to clear it to meet growing mobile broadband needs. But it needs to happen, and pronto. – The Federal Communications Commission is proposing that some broadcast television airwaves be used to meet the nations growing demand for mobile broadband services, which is being driven by widespread smartphone adoption and the increasing use of mobile devices such as laptops and tablets.
The O…
Level 3′s spat with Comcast over fees for bandwidth traffic will be looked into by the Federal Communications Commission. – Level 3 Communications has accused U.S. cable provider Comcast Communications of imposing an unfair fee on bandwidth traffic. As a provider of fiber-based communications services, Level 3 helps stream Netflixs television shows and movies to consumers. Now U.S. regulators are getting involved.
“On N…
From the FCC Website comes details of two unreleased Samsung handsets, the R700 and the GT-99020T thought to be the Nexus S and to be getting a new antenna. – The Federal Communications Commission Web site is offering details to two new smartphones coming from Samsung.
The first, Phone Scoop reports, is for a device suspected to run Googles Android OS, called the R700. It has a touch-screen, a camera, a headset jack and lock keys, and supports dual-band …
The FCC postpones a meeting, leading to speculation that the agency is preparing to vote on net neutrality. – The Federal Communications Commission announced it is delaying a meeting
concerning net neutrality to Dec. 21 from Dec. 2, leading some to speculate the
agency is preparing to vote on the controversial issue.
Net neutrality is a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet
service provi…
