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FCC Cuts Bold New Course on Network Neutrality

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 …


Waxman Throws Support to Network Neutrality

The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee agrees to co-sponsor Reps. Ed Markey and Anna Eschoo’s Internet Freedom Preservation Act, claiming a network neutrality law would add clarity, consistency and predictability for broadband providers.
– U.S.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce
Committee, threw his support behind network neutrality legislation Sept.
17. Speaking before an oversight hearing of the FCC (Federal
Communications Commission), Waxman said he would become a co-sponsor of
Reps. Ed Mar…


Think Tank Questions FCC’s Network Neutrality Authority

In a filing supporting Comcast’s appeal of the FCC ruling that Comcast violated the agency’s network neutrality principles by throttling peer-to-peer traffic from BitTorrent, the Progress Freedom Foundation contends the principles are not legally enforceable.
– The Federal Communications Commission lacks the legal authority to enforce
its network neutrality principles approved in 2005, a Washington
think tank said Aug. 10. The Progress amp; Freedom Foundation Aug. 10 filed a
legal brief supporting Comcast’s appeal of the 2008 FCC ruling that the cable



Network Neutrality: Game On for Open Networks

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…



Marvin Ammori: What Sotomayor Could Mean for Network Neutrality and the First Amendment

Senator Al Franken will ask Judge Sotomayor questions this week as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and has said he will ask about…