Net Neutrality In the News
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Jul 27, 2007
FTC Urges Caution On ‘Net Neutrality’ Proposals ReutersThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission warned Wednesday against regulations to ensure that providers of high-speed Internet service treat all content the same way, saying such rules could stifle innovation.
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Commissioners talk auctions, broadband on the Hill TelecomWebAs expected, the top five employees of the Federal Communications Commission focused on the 700 MHz auction and on better broadband proliferation when they testified in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee earlier today.
Here are a few of the highlights regarding the upcoming 700 MHz auction:
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin: “I have recently proposed rules for the 700 MHz auction that I believe will facilitate a national wireless broadband service. A coalition of companies that support a national wireless broadband alternative, Intel, Skype, Yahoo!, Google, DIRECTV and EchoStar, urged the Commission to structure the auction in such a manner that it would maximize the opportunity for a national wireless broadband service to emerge. They urged the Commission to make available at least one 11megahertz paired block, offered over large geographic areas, with combinatorial bidding so that a national service could be established.
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Jul 17, 2007
FCC Net Neutrality Inquiry Stirs Harsh Debate Communications DailyNet neutrality proponents, and especially Google, have not given “concrete reasons” for such regulation, Hands Off the Internet told the FCC Monday. The filing responded to comments last month (CD June 18 p2). The FCC is asking if it should subject networks to neutrality rules. “There is no current or likely market condition that [opponents] can point to justify new regulations,” the group said. “Proponents rely… on conjecture, speculation and hypocritical assertions to suggest that the marketplace, notwithstanding the extraordinary success… of the Internet, must now be regulated in order to ensure consumers will be protected from non-existent harms.” Not so, said the Computer & Communications Industry Association, demanding that telecom companies “show us the competition” that justifies not regulating for net neutrality. Opponents of net neutrality in the first round of comments tended to be companies with “market dominance,” said CCIA in reply comments. Most other commenters favored strengthening FCC “policy principles” by making them enforceable and many “advocate the further adoption of clear nondiscrimination rules or structural separation of local transport services,” the association said.
Jul 16, 2007
Hundreds weigh in on net neutrality Grant Gross, Info World, Yahoo NewsSan Francisco (IDGNS) - Hundreds of groups and individual Internet users sounded off to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on net neutrality in comments filed Monday, the deadline for responding to the agency’s inquiry into the proposed regulation.
Individual Internet users, trade groups, and advocacy organizations filed about 670 comments about net neutrality rules with the FCC Monday. Individuals and organizations have submitted nearly 29,000 comments on net neutrality since the FCC opened its inquiry in late March.
Net neutrality advocates want the FCC or the U.S. Congress to prohibit large broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast from blocking or slowing Web content from competitors.
Many of the comments Monday came from individual Internet users who asked the FCC to protect them against new fees that they fear broadband providers could charge Web content providers.
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Jul 16, 2007
Google Rules: FCC Endorses Its Stance on Net http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6460317.htmlWashington— Some winners in a pending federal spectrum auction would need to comply with network-neutrality mandates and other open-network conditions, according to controversial rules endorsed by Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin last Monday.
As a Republican appointee of President Bush, Martin has strongly resisted net-neutrality mandates favored by Silicon Valley giants Google, Yahoo, eBay and Amazon.com. But he evidently decided to shift gears, upsetting free-market advocates that say regulation is unnecessary unless the commission can demonstrate market failure.
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