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| Jun 12, 2026 | Cable Lobbyists Show How Trump FCC’s Extortive ‘Foreign Router Ban’ Isn’t Workable | Back in March I noted how the Trump FCC under Brendan Carr had announced a “new ban” on all routers made overseas (which is pretty much all of them). At the time we also noted how this was less of a ban and more of a shakedown, with router ... |
| Apr 14, 2026 | INCOMPAS and coalition of broadband groups push to accelerate infrastructure | INCOMPAS, the competitive communications and AI infrastructure association, alongside the Competitive Carriers Association, ConnectAI, CTIA, Fiber Broadband Association, NATE, NCTA, NTCA, Rural Wireless Association, USTelecom, Wireless Infr... |
| Jan 19, 2026 | FCC разрешила Verizon блокировать телефоны в своей сети на периоды больше 60 дней | Федеральная комиссия по связи США (FCC) разрешила Verizon блокировать телефоны в своей сети на периоды больше 60 дней. Это решение усложнит переход пользователей от Verizon к другим мобильным операторам, сообщает ArsTechnica.
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| Sep 8, 2025 | Former Republican Senator Cory Gardner Becomes The Cable Industry’s Top Lobbyist | Cory Gardner, who spent a decade as a Republican senator, has been freshly announced as the CEO of the NCTA–The Internet & Television Association–the cable industry’s biggest lobbying organization. As the revolving door spins you might ... |
| Jan 3, 2025 | Court throws out Biden FCC’s net neutrality rule | When the agency reinstated the rules in the Biden administration, Carr criticized the “flip-flopping” by the agency. On Thursday, Carr praised the decision in a statement on the social media platform X: “While the work to unwind the Biden A... |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Trump FCC Commissioners, Cable Lobby, Use Lazy Soup And Coffee Metaphors To Defend Shitty Broadband Usage Caps | As we recently noted, the Biden FCC has announced that it is finally “taking a look at” broadband usage caps. We’ve noted for decades how such limits are completely artificial, technically unnecessary constructs that exist specifically so y... |
| Oct 29, 2024 | Comcast, Charter Sue FTC Over Efforts To Make Canceling Services Easier | Earlier this month the FTC announced it was modifying some existing rules to crack down on companies that make it extremely difficult to cancel services. The agency’s revamp of its 1973 “Negative Option Rule” requires companies be completel... |
| Sep 28, 2024 | National Politics | Some states want to make it easier to cancel subscriptions | Originally his bill also would have required companies to get another “yes” from customers — “ affirmative consent,” in legislative lingo — before charging consumers’ credit or debit cards. But after strong objections from cable and streami... |
| Jun 26, 2024 | "Every Last Mile" Captures the Untold Story of Connecting Rural America | New NCTA-produced docufilm chronicles the dramatic challenges three broadband construction crews face to ensure every American has access to digital opportunities.
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| Jun 6, 2024 | Big Telecom Again Takes Net Neutrality To Court, But Faces Long Odds | Back in April the Biden FCC finally got around to restoring both net neutrality rules, and the agency’s Title II authority over telecom providers. The modest rules, as we’ve covered extensively, prevent big telecom giants from abusing their... |
| May 30, 2023 | New NCTA CTO hails from the wireless world | New NCTA CTO hails from the wireless world
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WASHINGTON – The Internet & Television Association today announced Rikin Thakker, Ph.D., as its next Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Senior Vice Presid... |
| Jan 18, 2023 | Former FCC exec joins NCTA's legal and regulatory affairs team | Former FCC exec joins NCTA's legal and regulatory affairs team
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| Sep 20, 2022 | Comcast promises huge boost to cable upload speeds by end of 2023 | Enlarge / Comcast's xFi Advanced Gateway.
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| Aug 23, 2021 | 99% of new modems and routers hit energy efficiency goals study | WASHINGTON More than 99% of new modems, routers and other internet equipment purchased and sold last year for U.S. residential broadband subscribers met the new energy efficiency goals of the Voluntary Agreement for Ongoing Improvement to... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | Voluntary set-top agreement saved $2.2B in energy costs in 2020, supporters claim | WASHINGTON Consumers saved $2.2 billion in energy costs in 2020 thanks to a voluntary agreement between the pay-TV industry and energy efficiency advocates. The agreement led by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), NCTA The Intern... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | How much do you pay your ISP? Consumer Reports wants to see your bill | Enlarge
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| May 28, 2021 | The bipartisan consensus on broadband is a mirage | There’s a tense fight in Washington between Republicans and Democrats over President Biden’s infrastructure plan, from the amount of funding in it to the very definition of infrastructure. But on the question of addressing the internet and ... |
| May 7, 2021 | Ajit Pai promised cheaper Internet—prices rose faster than inflation instead [Updated] | Enlarge
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| Jan 29, 2021 | Cable ISP warns “excessive” uploaders, says network can’t handle heavy usage | Enlarge
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| Nov 25, 2020 | Ajit Pai's FCC Does Something Good, Frees Wireless Spectrum The Auto Industry Had Done Little With | While we’ve had no shortage of criticism for Ajit Pai’s facts-optional, relentless ass kissing of entrenched telecom monopolies, or his wholesale demolition of U.S. consumer protection, his agency has done a good job bringing more wireless ... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Ajit Pai's FCC Does Something Good, Frees Wireless Spectrum The Auto Industry Had Done Little With | While we've had no shortage of criticism for Ajit Pai's facts-optional, relentless ass kissing of entrenched telecom monopolies, or his wholesale demolition of U.S. consumer protection, his agency has done a good job bringing more wireless ... |
| Nov 18, 2020 | FCC takes spectrum from auto industry in plan to “supersize” Wi-Fi | Enlarge
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| Jun 25, 2020 | Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox | Enlarge
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| Jun 8, 2020 | Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users | Enlarge
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| May 23, 2020 | Making Internet service a utility—what’s the worst that could happen? | The cable industry takes a subtle approach to anti-Title II advertising.
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| May 14, 2020 | COVID-19 shows we need Universal Basic Internet now | Kevin Frazier Contributor
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| Apr 8, 2020 | Pandemic hasn’t crushed broadband networks—even rural areas are doing OK | Enlarge
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| Apr 2, 2020 | Wi-Fi 6E becomes official—the FCC will vote on rules this month | Enlarge / Today's devices don't—and won't—support the new 6GHz band. Once the spectrum is ratified for Wi-Fi use, you'll need hardware upgrades before you can take advantage of it.
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| Feb 24, 2020 | Craigslist turns 25 — a reminder that a more democratic version of the internet can still thrive | Fake news. Online surveillance. Phishing scams. Biased algorithms.
It’s easy to be cynical about the internet, and harder to remember a time when being online felt less commercial and more democratic. But there was a period when websites di... |
| Nov 4, 2019 | ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says | Enlarge / Mozilla's office in San Francisco.
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| Oct 26, 2019 | Comcast Is Against Google DNS Encryption. Here’s What It Means to You | Pauline Mendoza, Tech Times 26 October 2019, 09:10 am
As reported by Vice, Internet company Comcast urges US lawmakers to go against Google's plans to encrypt DNS (domain name system) data on Chrome. DNS data includes browsing history or th... |
| Oct 25, 2019 | Comcast fights Google’s encrypted-DNS plan but promises not to spy on users | Enlarge / A Comcast van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018.
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| Oct 1, 2019 | Google Chrome vai criptografar DNS e as operadoras não estão felizes | O Google Chrome já possui suporte experimental ao DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), um recurso que criptografa as solicitações de DNS para aumentar sua privacidade. A partir da versão 78, com lançamento previsto para o final de outubro, a tecnologia se... |
| Mar 8, 2019 | #MeTech: Personal assistant prejudice and biased AI | “Alexa, tell me the news?”
This is probably not far off something you’ve absentmindedly asked your Amazon Echo, Google Assistant, Cortana or Siri while sipping your morning coffee, letting her neutral, cordial tones shower you with informa... |
| Jan 9, 2019 | Cable Industry Hypes Phony '10G' When 5G Isn't Even Available Yet | We’ve repeatedly noted how while fifth-generation (5G) wireless should someday deliver faster, more efficient wireless networks, the technology itself has been embarrassingly over-hyped, largely thanks to network vendor and cellular carrier... |
| Jan 7, 2019 | Envious of 5G hype, cable cos. unveil potentially confusing “10G” trademark | Enlarge
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| Sep 27, 2018 | Banda larga fixa e ligações de celular ficaram 44% mais baratas em cinco anos | A banda larga fixa teve queda de preços no Brasil: o valor médio mensal por Mb/s caiu 44% entre 2013 e 2017, segundo levantamento da Telebrasil (Associação Brasileira de Telecomunicações). É uma tendência mundial, mesmo que a internet ainda... |
| May 17, 2018 | ISPs and Ajit Pai are really sad about Senate’s vote for net neutrality | Enlarge / MAY 16, 2018: Senate Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at a press conference after a Senate vote to maintain net neutrality rules.
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| Nov 27, 2017 | Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repeal | Enlarge
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| Sep 29, 2017 | Internet Activists Urge Congress to Fire Trump's FCC Chief Ajit Pai | Open internet advocates and Democratic lawmakers are mounting a last-ditch effort to remove Federal Communications Commission chief Ajit Pai over his anti-net neutrality stance, just days before Pai is set to be approved by the Senate for a... |
| Jul 27, 2017 | Cable lobby claims US is totally overflowing in broadband competition | Free Press reader comments 146 with 87 posters participating
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| Jul 13, 2017 | Comcast says net neutrality supporters “create hysteria” | Enlarge
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| Jun 14, 2017 | Cable Lobby Again Makes It Clear That Net Neutrality Didn't Hurt Broadband Investment | So we’ve long noted how giant ISPs like Comcast have repeatedly tried to claim that the FCC’s fairly modest 2015 net neutrality rules utterly devastated broadband industry investment. The problem for Comcast is that any time a journalist ta... |
| Jun 12, 2017 | Broadband speeds have soared under net neutrality rules, cable lobby says | Enlarge
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| Jun 5, 2017 | Netflix Stops Fight Against Net Neutrality, Suggests Battle Can't Be Won | Carl Velasco, Tech Times 05 June 2017, 08:06 am
It seems Netflix has given up on the controversial and contentious fight to maintain net neutrality.
Speaking with Peter Kafka of Recode during the Code Conference, Reed Hastings, CEO of Netfl... |
| May 23, 2017 | Cable Companies Refuse To Put Their Breathless Love Of Net Neutrality Down In Writing | Apparently, giant broadband providers don’t much want to put their sudden, mysterious love of net neutrality into writing. Last week, the FCC voted to begin killing net neutrality, opening the door to a 90-day comment period ahead of a broa... |
| May 18, 2017 | Net neutrality going down in flames as FCC votes to kill Title II rules | Enlarge / Protestors object to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to eliminate net neutrality rules before Pai's appearance at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2017.
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| May 16, 2017 | Cable Industry's Own Survey Shows Majority Support Net Neutrality Rules | The broadband industry is continuing its brave campaign to convince the public that gutting all oversight of growing monopolies like Comcast somehow ends well for the American consumer and smaller Comcast competitors. Last week this involve... |
| May 11, 2017 | Cable lobby conducts survey, finds that Americans want net neutrality | M3Li55@ reader comments 116 with 66 posters participating
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| Mar 29, 2017 | ISPs and FCC Chair Ajit Pai celebrate death of online privacy rules | Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai testifying before a Senate subcommittee on May 11, 2016, when he was a commissioner.
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| Mar 7, 2017 | Trump renominates FCC Chair Ajit Pai for another five-year term | Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai testifying before a Senate subcommittee on May 11, 2016, when he was a commissioner.
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| Mar 2, 2017 | Broadband lobbyists celebrate as FCC halts data security requirements | Enlarge
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| Jan 24, 2017 | Big Telecom is Ecstatic About Trump's New FCC Boss Ajit Pai | That sound you're hearing?
It's cable and telecom executives and lobbyists whooping it up and popping champagne corks over President Trump's choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission.
From Dallas to Philly to DC to New York, the ... |
| Oct 10, 2016 | These 3 local nonprofits snagged grants from the NCTA Foundation | The charitable arm of the NCTA – The Internet & Television Association announced last week that it has partnered with three local nonprofits to provide a total of $325,000 toward inclusion-focused work in the digital realm. The three gr... |
| Sep 21, 2016 | Cable Lobbyists Stop Using The Word Cable In Hopes You'll Think Industry Has Evolved | It often seems like the modern cable industry often goes out of its way to remain decidedly un-modern. Thanks to regulatory capture and limited competition, the sector consistently ranks among the very worst industries in terms of customer ... |
| Sep 19, 2016 | Cable lobby tries to make you forget that it represents cable companies | Enlarge
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| Sep 9, 2016 | Comcast Already Whining About New FCC Cable Box Plan, Despite It Being The Cable Industry's Idea | We’ve noted how the FCC’s plan to bring competition to the cable box fell apart over the last few months, thanks to a massive disinformation effort by the cable industry involving a flood of hugely misleading editorials and some help from t... |
| Sep 6, 2016 | FCC To Propose Itself As Sole TV Programmer In Latest Set-Top Box Twist | Is TV’s Second Golden Age coming to an unfortunate and unnecessary end? |
| Aug 2, 2016 | Broadband Industry Formally Tries, Once Again, To Kill Net Neutrality | If at first you don’t succeed, try to waste everybody’s time in perpetuity. That’s apparently the plan of the broadband industry, which has formally unveiled its latest attempt to kill U.S. net neutrality rules and the FCC’s reclassificatio... |
| Jul 29, 2016 | Broadband industry tries again to kill net neutrality and Title II | Getty Images | ullstein bild reader comments 96 with 58 posters participating
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| Jul 22, 2016 | Cable lobby set-top offer: No DVR requirement, no more compromises | Comcast's X1 TV system and apps.
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| Jun 15, 2016 | US watchdog wins net neutrality fight against providers | Telcos and web services providers in the United States could end up under closer regulatory scrutiny after an appeals court defined high-speed broadband as a utility.
A panel comprising three judges issued the decision [pdf] in a closely-wa... |
| May 16, 2016 | Protecting your privacy if you use a route mapping app | |
| May 16, 2016 | Cable lobby says FCC launched assault on industry “without provocation” | NCTA CEO Michael Powell at the cable lobby's annual INTX (Internet & Television Expo) conference.
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| Apr 28, 2016 | FCC proposes new price regulations for cable—but not for home Internet | Getty Images | Martin Hospach reader comments 42 with 33 posters participating
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| Apr 15, 2016 | Obama supports cable box competition and—surprise—cable lobby is angry | President Obama and FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
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| Feb 9, 2016 | Comcast Using Minority Astroturf Groups To Argue Cable Set Top Box Competition Hurts Diversity | For years one of the greasier lobbying and PR tactics by the telecom industry has been the use of minority groups to parrot awful policy positions. Historically, such groups are happy to take financing from a company like Comcast, in exchan... |
| Feb 2, 2016 | The Cable Industry Is Absolutely Terrified Of Set Top Box Competition | Last week, we noted that the FCC has proposed new guidelines that would bring some much-needed competition to the cable TV set top box market. Data shows that 99% of consumers pay something on average to $230 a year in set top box rental fe... |
| Jan 28, 2016 | Cable lobby is really mad about FCC’s set-top box competition plan | Steven Depolo reader comments 182 with 106 posters participating
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| Jan 28, 2016 | Tom Wheeler fires back at cable lobby, says cable box fees are too high | FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
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| Jan 8, 2016 | ISPs mad that FCC wants faster broadband deployment | "Seems fast enough to me."
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| Jun 10, 2015 | Net neutrality takes effect Friday; ISPs scramble to avoid complaints | Life As Art reader comments 108 with 54 posters participating
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| May 21, 2015 | Comcast ends an interconnection fight before net neutrality takes effect | reader comments 57 with 35 posters participating
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| May 20, 2015 | ISPs really don’t want to follow new customer data privacy rules | Ruth Suehle, opensource.com reader comments 109 with 70 posters participating
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| May 6, 2015 | Tom Wheeler tells cable industry to stop complaining, start competing | FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
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| May 4, 2015 | FCC’s Tom Wheeler Talks Net Neutrality, Congress And Possibly Serving The Next President | TechCrunch writer Alex Wilhelm talked to FCC Commissioner Tom Wheeler onstage today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY about the decision to pass new net neutrality regulations, Congressional troubles and Wheeler’s take on the failed Comcast/Time War... |
| May 1, 2015 | Entire broadband industry seeks immediate halt to Title II classification | reader comments 155 with 99 posters participating
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| Apr 14, 2015 | FCC’s revolving door: Former chairman leads charge against Title II | The FCC's revolving door doesn't always lead to the same outcome.
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| Apr 14, 2015 | Wireless, Cable Industries Show Their Love Of An 'Open Internet' By Suing To Overturn Net Neutrality Rules | Now that the FCC’s net neutrality rules have been published in the Federal Register, the broadband industry has fired its litigation cannons and filed the expected lawsuits via all of the major trade organizations (see suits for the NCTA, A... |
| Mar 13, 2015 | Net neutrality is “Big Brother ObamaNet,” and other brilliant criticism of FCC | Aurich Lawson reader comments 418 with 141 posters participating
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| Mar 13, 2015 | The FCC's Net Neutrality Rules Will Be a Bonanza for Lawyers | The Federal Communications Commission released the full text of its long awaited open internet rules Thursday—and now it's time for the lawyers to get paid.
The FCC's 400-page order, which is intended to protect net neutrality, will almost ... |
| Feb 6, 2015 | The FCC isn’t afraid of AT&T’s legal threats over net neutrality | Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson reader comments 182 with 99 posters participating
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| Feb 4, 2015 | FCC Proposes Strong Net Neutrality Rules, But Don't Call the Internet a Utility | Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler on Wednesday proposed strong new rules protecting internet openness in a landmark move that was hailed by net neutrality advocates, but is sure to face legal challenges and political bl... |
| Jan 29, 2015 | FCC Redefines Broadband As 25 Mbps, Angering Broadband Industry Perfectly Happy With Previous, Pathetic Standard | For a few months now, the FCC has been hinting that it was preparing to raise the base definition of broadband, and now it has officially made it happen. Voting 3-2 along party lines (because having goals is a partisan issue, you know), the... |
| Jan 21, 2015 | That Study In Every Paper Claiming Title II Will Result In $15 Billion In New Taxes? Yeah, That's Total Bunk | A few weeks back, we noted how a new study by the Progressive Policy Institute was making the claim that reclassifying ISPs under Title II would result in $15 billion in new state and federal taxes. As also noted, the claim was quickly pick... |
| Jan 21, 2015 | Broadband Industry Takes To Congressional Hearing To Praise Wimpy, Neutrality-Killing Proposal It Helped Write | To derail February’s expected unveiling of Title II-based neutrality rules, the broadband industry is engaged in a last ditch effort to pass some of the flimsiest net neutrality rules we’ve seen yet. Spearheaded by Senator John Thune and Re... |
| Jan 15, 2015 | The Biggest Foes of Obama's High Speed Internet Plan | President Obama's strong support for community internet networks drew sharp criticism on Wednesday from cable and telecom industry groups, as well as Republican lawmakers who called the White House's plan to boost local internet coverage an... |
| Jan 14, 2015 | Cable stocks take a tumble after Obama touts broadband for all | Cable stocks took a broadside hit Wednesday after President Obama stumped for more competition among broadband providers — including having his regulators press for changes in laws that will allow more states to provide municipal Internet s... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | “Bipartisan” bill would save Internet providers from utility rules | The cable industry takes a subtle approach to anti-Title II advertising.
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| Jan 9, 2015 | Cable lobby says Google Fiber doesn’t need Title II to get pole access | This is what a Google Fiber installation looks like, in case you were wondering. reader comments 99 with 71 posters participating
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| Dec 9, 2014 | The Broadband Industry Pretends To Be Worried About Your Soaring Bill In Attempt To Undermine Net Neutrality | On the heels of Obama’s surprise support of Title II-based net neutrality rules last month, we noted that the broadband industry’s anti-Title II talking points (primarily that it will kill network investment and sector innovation) not only ... |
| Nov 18, 2014 | Net Neutrality Emails Reveal a Cozy 'Social Network' Between the FCC and Telecoms | The Federal Communications Commission has long been accused of having a close relationship with the industry it regulates.
The accusations are usually leveled because of the revolving door that has seen FCC officials leave the agency to wor... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | Broadband Industry: Title II Is Bad Because Only A Broken Congress Awash In Our Lobbying Cash Should Guide Net Neutrality | Not too surprisingly, the broadband industry isn’t too happy about the White House’s surprise announcement that it appears to have grown a spine and is ready to go to war over reclassifying ISPs under Title II to protect net neutrality. ISP... |
| Oct 9, 2014 | Hipster net neutrality group's mysterious backer gets outed: It's the cable companies | As pressure on the Federal Communications Commission grows to make a final ruling on net neutrality, the big stakeholders in the issue have mobilized — sometimes in strange and deceptive ways.
One group, called Onward Internet, tends to set... |
| Oct 9, 2014 | Hipster net neutrality group's mysterious backer gets outed: It's the cable companies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Sep 25, 2014 | FCC Democrats want to ban fast lanes and impose stricter rules on wireless | Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell with FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn.
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| Sep 10, 2014 | Net Neutrality Advocates Turn Up the Volume | A vast coalition of Internet businesses and activists, as well as two top Congressional Democrats, launched a series of loud new public relations campaigns Wednesday in support of “net neutrality,” the notion that Internet service providers... |
| Sep 9, 2014 | Companies that sell network equipment to ISPs don’t want net neutrality | Taramisu reader comments 126 with 63 posters participating
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| Sep 6, 2014 | The Cable Industry's Anti-Net Neutrality Ads Are All Scare Tactics, No Substance | It's no secret the cable industry hates the idea of reclassifying the internet as a utility, a favored option for those who want to preserve net neutrality. In a bid to make you hate the idea, too, the industry has taken out a series of pri... |