A new government report out last week says that the $7.2 billion
federal program, created for expanding broadband access to the most
under served areas, is lacking the information and safeguards
needed to avoid fraud and abuse.
As part of February’s federal stimulus package, the U.S. Commerce
and Agriculture Departments were given stimulus funds to [...]
The Home Office of the U.K. plans to require ISP’s to store
records of all e-mail, social networking and web-traffic, including
information from some online games. The Internet Service
Provider’s Association, in a letter to the Home Office says, “The
proposals go far beyond the present rules for storing telephone
data and would have a [...]
According to a new report released by the Sunlight Foundation
and the Center for Responsive Politics, Senator John McCain,
R-Arizona, received $894,379 in campaign contributions during his
second failed presidential bid from telco and cable lobbyist
working for top ISP’s including AT&T, Comcast and
Verizon.
Senator McCain has emerged as the Internet Service Provider’s
champion against [...]
Support for Net Neutrality rules gained support on Monday when
24 executives of Internet content and Telecom service companies
including Twitter, Facebook, Google and Amazon sent a letter to the
FCC saying, “America’s leadership in technology space has been due,
in large part, to the open Internet”.
These companies are urging the FCC to move forward [...]
The FCC released findings from a study that observed broadband
practices. The study, commissioned by the U.S. Federal
Communication Commission, revealed that open access policies have
helped other leading industrialized nations develop more
competitive broadband markets.
According to the FCC, gaining open access to carrier facilities
makes for a much more robust competitive market. A more [...]
In an attempt to stall any forward progress in the net
neutrality debate, Republicans now want the FCC to identify
specific practices they believe warrant “regulatory intervention”,
saying the possibility of discrimination is not a sufficient point
of debate.
These practices have already been identified by numerous sources
but the Republicans want a list. Two examples [...]
Broadband was previously defined by the FCC as an internet
service with download speeds of at least 200 kbps, which was far
too low. The FCC, last year, raised those minimum speeds from
200 kbps to 768 kbps.
This change was met with disapproval from AT&T when they issued
a statement to the FCC saying,
“setting the [...]
The Net neutrality debate began in earnest in 2005 when then
AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre proclaimed that Google was getting a
“free ride” on his network. His answer to this perceived
problem was lacking in imagination and forethought.
His answer was to rectify the issue of a “free ride” by charging
companies who were already paying [...]
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