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| Feb 6, 2025 | New York's Broadband Law: A Battle Against Telecom Giants | In the digital age, access to the internet is as vital as electricity. Yet, in New York State, a new law aimed at providing affordable broadband to low-income residents is facing an uphill battle. The law mandates that major Internet Servic... |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Big Telecom Again Begs Trump Supreme Court To Kill State Laws Requiring They (Gasp) Provide Affordable Broadband To Poor People | During peak COVID lockdowns in 2021, New York State passed a law requiring that big ISPs (with over 20k users) offer low-income residents 25 Mbps broadband for $15. It wasn’t a huge ask; it costs major ISPs little to nothing to provide that... |
| Jan 3, 2025 | The Net Neutrality Tug-of-War: A Legal Setback for Open Internet Advocates | The battle for net neutrality in the United States has taken another twist. A recent ruling from a U.S. appeals court has dashed hopes for those advocating for an open internet. The court decided that the Federal Communications Commission (... |
| Jan 3, 2025 | US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net neutrality rules | (Corrects date from Tuesday to Thursday in paragraph one)
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The Trump administration is unlikely to appeal the decision but net-neutrality advocates could seek review by the Supreme Court.
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| 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... |
| Jan 2, 2025 | US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules | US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules
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| Aug 3, 2024 | The Tug-of-War Over Broadband: Telecom Giants vs. Affordable Access | In the sprawling landscape of American broadband, a battle brews. On one side, the telecom giants, fortified by decades of dominance. On the other, the government, armed with a $42 billion subsidy aimed at expanding access. The stakes? Affo... |
| Aug 2, 2024 | Big Telecom Will Soon Get $42 BIllion In Taxpayer Subsidies, But Balk At Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People | Broadband providers poised to receive $42 billion in taxpayer broadband subsidies from the infrastructure bill are ramping up complaints about a small requirement affixed to the massive handout: they have to try to make broadband affordable... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | Universal Service Fund Faces Uncertain Future After Court Ruling**
** | ** The Universal Service Fund (USF) is at a crossroads. A recent ruling from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown its future into doubt. The court declared the USF unconstitutional, shaking the very foundation of telecommunica... |
| Jul 24, 2024 | New court ruling puts Universal Service Fund in hot water | The future of the Universal Service Fund (USF) is in question after the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Federal Communication Commission's method for funding the USF unconstitutional.
The Fifth Circuit Court previously upheld ... |
| Jun 14, 2024 | Big Telecom Still Pushing Hard For Broadband Tax On Big Tech | Telecom lobbyists have been working overtime for years in both the US and EU, trying to get policymakers to support the idea of “Big Tech” paying “Big Telecom” billions of additional dollars for no coherent reason.
This taxation effort alwa... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Telecom operators push for crackdown on illegal WiFi devices in 6 GHz band | Telecom operators in the USA are calling for a ban on illegal WiFi devices operating in the 6 GHz band. These devices are causing interference and disrupting the network, leading to connectivity issues for users. The operators are urging re... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | Net neutrality rules to be restored in US agency vote | WASHINGTON :The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote Thursday to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight of broadband internet rescinded under former President Donald Trump.
The commission vot... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | FCC restores net neutrality rules | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The FCC on Thursday voted along party lines to treat internet companies like utilities, clearing the way for heightened scrutiny on the industry.
Why it matters: Reclassifying broadband under Title II... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | Net neutrality is back: FCC bars broadband providers from meddling with internet speed | Internet service providers can no longer fiddle with how quickly — or not — customers are able to browse the web or download files, the Federal Communications Commission ruled Thursday.
The 3-2 vote to adopt net neutrality regulations, whic... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | The SIP Forum Announces AI SUMMIT 2024 Webinar Series Registrations Are Open | AI SUMMIT 2024
Free-to-Attend Webinar Series takes place May 6-8, 2024; features comprehensive webinar series focused on the solutions, opportunities, and risks that AI poses to the telecommunications industry and users of communication ser... |
| Apr 3, 2024 | FCC set to restore net neutrality rules | The FCC later this month will vote on whether to bolster the agency's regulatory powers over internet companies, Chair Jessica Rosenworcel announced Wednesday.
Why it matters: Net neutrality proponents say more government oversight is neede... |
| Oct 18, 2023 | Every Year Like Clockwork The Telecom Industry Lies And Claims Broadband Prices Are Dropping | Once a year like clockwork, the telecom industry trade association releases a study claiming that if you squint just right–broadband prices have dropped year after year. It’s their annual attempt to pretend (and to help the politicians that... |
| Oct 14, 2023 | ‘Terminating Internet Access over Piracy Claims is Drastic and Overbroad’ | Last year, a Texas federal jury found Grande Communications liable for willful contributory copyright infringement and ordered the ISP to pay $47 million in damages to a group of record labels.
The ISP was held liable for infringing 1,403 c... |
| Jul 19, 2023 | The SIP Forum Announces Call Authentication-Focused Conference Agenda for SIPNOC 2023 is Now Live | The SIP Network Operators Conference SIPNOC is THE gathering place for the call authentication community, and with its return to in-person proceedings, we look forward to sharing the expertise and real-world experiences essential to the ong... |
| Jun 26, 2023 | US Broadband Monopolies Once Again Push Idea That Tech Giants Should Pay Them Billions For No Reason | We’ve noted several times how European telecom giants have somehow convinced European policymakers that technology giants like Netflix and Google should annually give them billions of dollars… for no coherent reason. |
| Jun 22, 2023 | The SIP Forum Opens Registration for SIPNOC 2023 - the 12th Annual SIP Network Operators Conference | SIPNOC 2023 will return to live, in-person proceedings, and continue and expand its focus on the broad Call and Text Authentication ecosystem and the continuing efforts to eliminate illegal Robocalls, Caller ID Spoofing, and Robotexts.
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| May 17, 2023 | The SIP Forum Announces KYC SUMMIT 2023 Webinar Series Registrations Are Open | The SIP Forum is proud to announce that the official agenda and webinar registrations are now live for the KYC SUMMIT 2023, a special virtual event focused on 'Know Your Customer' Strategies, Solutions and Best Practices.
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| Sep 28, 2022 | The SIP Forum Announces STIR/SHAKEN ENTERPRISE SUMMIT Webinar Series Registrations Are Open | The official agenda and webinar registrations are now live for the STIR/SHAKEN ENTERPRISE SUMMIT, a special virtual event focused on the current Enterprise challenges and opportunities related to the deployment and successful operation of t... |
| May 9, 2022 | Gigi Sohn and the Police | Three Elizabeth Warren acolytes appointed by President Biden have failed to win confirmation in the Senate, and now the White House is scrambling to save another. But the President may be endangering vulnerable Senate Democrats by continuin... |
| Mar 4, 2022 | The SIP Forum Announces SIPNOC 2022 Webinar Series Registrations Are Open | SIPNOC 2022 will focus on issues critical to the successful deployment and operation of STIR/SHAKEN, as well as associated topics including the ramifications of governmental regulatory, legislative and enforcement actions and critical secur... |
| Mar 1, 2022 | The Expanding Broadband Infrastructure Is A Private Sector Success Story | Data communications and cloud computing network getty |
| Jul 13, 2021 | How much do you pay your ISP? Consumer Reports wants to see your bill | Enlarge
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| Jul 1, 2021 | The SIP Forum Announces 2021 STIR/SHAKEN VIRTUAL SUMMIT Webinar Series Registrations Are Open | The 2021 STIR/SHAKEN VIRTUAL SUMMIT will offer actionable information for all industry stakeholders in the Robocall and Caller ID Spoofing elimination/mitigation ecosystem
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| Jun 3, 2021 | ‘Terminating Internet Access Based on Piracy Accusations is Extremely Harmful’ | Two years ago Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels.
A Virginia jury held Cox liable for pirating subscribers because it failed to terminate accounts after repeated accusations, or... |
| Jun 2, 2021 | Broadband Industry Keeps (Falsely) Claiming US Broadband Prices Are Dropping | When the data doesn’t go its way, the US broadband industry has a tendency to just make up data that does. That was certainly the case during the Trump tax cuts, when the industry claimed tax relief would create thousands of new, high payin... |
| Jun 2, 2021 | Broadband Industry Keeps (Falsely) Claiming US Broadband Prices Are Dropping | When the data doesn't go its way, the US broadband industry has a tendency to just make up data that does. That was certainly the case during the Trump tax cuts, when the industry claimed tax relief would create thousands of new, high payin... |
| May 7, 2021 | Ajit Pai promised cheaper Internet—prices rose faster than inflation instead [Updated] | Enlarge
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The average US home-Internet bill increased 19 percent during the first three years of the ... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | Back To Basics: The Flawed Phone Channel Can Be Restored | James Garvert is a Neustar SVP and GM, responsible for Caller ID, Branded Call Display, Trusted Call Solutions, and other products. |
| Oct 13, 2020 | CTIA, CCA urge Trump to oppose 5G nationalization efforts
Featured Whitepaper | Carriers big and small are uniting against efforts to nationalize 5G, with CTIA and the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) among the signatories in a letter sent to President Trump urging his administration to oppose such moves.
“Whethe... |
| Jul 17, 2020 | FCC: Phone carriers that profit from robocalls could have all calls blocked | Enlarge
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| Apr 27, 2020 | Ajit Pai uses bad data to claim ISPs are deploying broadband to everyone | Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai speaking at a press conference on October 1, 2018, in Washington, DC.
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| Oct 17, 2019 | States Rush To Protect Net Neutrality On Heels Of Court Ruling | Despite the obvious fraud and false data used to prop up the move, a court recently backed much of the Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality. But it wasn't all champagne and roses for Ajit Pai and his friends in the telecom sector. The court ... |
| Oct 17, 2019 | States Rush To Protect Net Neutrality On Heels Of Court Ruling | Despite the obvious fraud and false data used to prop up the move, a court recently backed much of the Ajit Pai’s repeal of net neutrality. But it wasn’t all champagne and roses for Ajit Pai and his friends in the telecom sector. The court ... |
| 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... |
| Sep 27, 2019 | Study Proves The FCC's Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was False | A new study has found the FCC’s primary justification for repealing net neutrality was indisputably false.
For years, big ISPs and Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai have told anyone who’d listen that the FCC’s net neutrality rules, passed in 2015 and... |
| Jun 14, 2019 | Cable companies can save money now that DOCSIS 3.1 upgrade is mostly done | Enlarge / A Comcast van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018.
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| Apr 10, 2019 | House Votes to Save Net Neutrality | The House today voted 232-190 to approve the Save The Internet Act, a bill that would fully restore both the FCC’s 2015 net neutrality rules and the agency’s authority to protect broadband consumers from the bad behavior of telecom giants.
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| Apr 1, 2019 | Telecom Lobby Suddenly Pretends To Care About Accurate Broadband Maps | For a country that likes to talk about “being number one” a lot, that’s sure not reflected in the United States’ broadband networks, or the broadband maps we use to determine which areas lack adequate broadband or competition (resulting in ... |
| Mar 20, 2019 | Using Networks To Govern Network Problems | Today, botnets and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that can accompany them, are considered among “the most severe cybersecurity threats.” Botnets have caused extensive economic harm to businesses, banks, hospitals, and gove... |
| Dec 6, 2018 | AT&T/Verizon lobby misunderstands arrow of time, makes impossible claim | Enlarge
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| Dec 6, 2018 | Telecom's Top Lobbying Arm Oddly Keeps Undermining The Industry's Own Claims About Net Neutrality | The telecom industry (and by proxy Ajit Pai’s) primary justification for killing net neutrality — and FCC authority over ISPs in general — was that sector oversight was stunting network investment. Of course repeated analysis of the data sh... |
| Nov 6, 2018 | Ajit Pai slams Sprint, Charter, and CenturyLink for poor robocall effort | Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on December 14, 2017, in Washington, DC, the day of the FCC's vote to repeal net neutrality rules.
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| Nov 1, 2018 | Verizon Won’t Accelerate 5G Rollout, Despite FCC Fee Reductions | Last month, the FCC issued an order that prevented local municipalities across the United States from levying $2B in fees and charges against the telcos working on 5G deployments. The stated rationale for this decision, according to the FCC... |
| Oct 29, 2018 | California Net Neutrality Enforcement & Cases Delayed | Enforcement of California’s recently instated net neutrality laws and legal proceedings associated with the laws, passed in Senate Bill 822, have now been delayed as part of an agreement reached between plaintiffs in at least two cases agai... |
| Oct 23, 2018 | Ajit Pai, Telecom Lobbyists Are Now Coordinating Their Lies In Perfect Symmetry | So we’ve made it pretty clear by now that the FCC’s entire justification for repealing net neutrality was based entirely on fluff and lobbyist nonsense. But because the Administrative Procedure Act requires that regulators actually provide ... |
| Oct 22, 2018 | Broadband Industry Sues Vermont For Daring To Protect Consumers, Net Neutrality | As we’ve made pretty clear, the broadband industry is successfully obliterating most meaningful federal and state oversight of their broken, largely uncompetitive broadband monopolies. They’ve had great success in convincing the Trump admin... |
| Aug 14, 2018 | Oh Look, Yet More Efforts To Strangle Broadband Competition | A major component of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the idea of line sharing, or local loop unbundling. Simply put, the rules set forth required that incumbent telcos needed to share their networks with smaller competitors, providin... |
| Jun 18, 2018 | FCC, Big Telcos Take Aim At Line Sharing Rules In Bid To Further Hamstring Broadband Competition | So you might recall that part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the concept of line sharing, or local loop unbundling. Simply, the rules set forth by that law required that incumbent telcos needed to share their networks with smalle... |
| 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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| May 7, 2018 | AT&T/Verizon lobby asks FCC to help raise prices on smaller ISPs | Enlarge
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| Apr 12, 2018 | ISPs Use Facebook Scandal to Push For Bad Privacy Laws They Know They’ll Get To Write | Large ISPs that have spent countless hours fighting meaningful privacy protections are suddenly using the Facebook fracas to call for new privacy laws. Why? They know they’ll probably be the ones writing the legislation. ISPs like Comcast a... |
| Apr 10, 2018 | Broadband Industry Aims To Use Facebook Fracas To Saddle Silicon Valley With Crappy New Laws | For years now, the nation’s broadband industry has clung to one, consistent message: anti-competitive giants like Comcast are innocent, ultra-innovative daisies, and Silicon Valley companies are a terrible, terrible menace. From Ajit Pai’s ... |
| Mar 29, 2018 | Telecom Lobbyists: We'll Fight State Efforts To Protect Net Neutrality For A 'United And Connected Future' | Since the FCC rushed to give telecom monopolies a sloppy kiss with its net neutrality repeal late last year, more than half the states in the country are now pursuing their own net neutrality rules. Some states (most recently Washington and... |
| Dec 5, 2017 | 50,000 net neutrality complaints were excluded from FCC’s repeal docket | Enlarge
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| Jul 18, 2017 | Comcast accuses net neutrality advocates of not “living in the real world” | Comcast reader comments 130 with 92 posters participating
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| Jul 13, 2017 | Comcast says net neutrality supporters “create hysteria” | Enlarge
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| Jun 12, 2017 | Broadband speeds have soared under net neutrality rules, cable lobby says | Enlarge
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| May 16, 2017 | Title II hasn’t hurt network investment, according to the ISPs themselves | Enlarge
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| May 2, 2017 | This Verizon 'Interview' About Net Neutrality Is So Bad I Am Not Even Mad | In this delightful 3 minute video, Verizon, the $187 billion telecom giant whose former associate general counsel, Ajit Pai, is now in charge of the Federal Communications Commission, begs you to believe that it's totally in favor of the fr... |
| Apr 27, 2017 | FCC Chairman Moves to Eliminate Net Neutrality Regulations | April 27, 2017 6 min read This story originally appeared on PCMag
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday moved to dismantle the net neutrality rules put in place by the previous administration, arguing that the agency under former Chairman Tom ... |
| Apr 20, 2017 | FCC helps AT&T and Verizon charge more by ending broadband price caps | Enlarge
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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 2, 2017 | Broadband lobbyists celebrate as FCC halts data security requirements | Enlarge
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| Feb 28, 2017 | FCC head Ajit Pai: You can thank me for carriers’ new unlimited data plans | Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai speaks during a keynote speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 28, 2017.
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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 ... |
| Jan 13, 2017 | Killing net neutrality at FCC is “not a slam dunk,” departing chair says | FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
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| Sep 20, 2016 | 3 Ways Fast Broadband Contributes to Economic Growth | In the years since the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) published a report on the positive impact of broadband connectivity to global economies, the observations are supported and confirmed by major research projects by economic... |
| Aug 23, 2016 | A List of Female Technology Policy Experts | Update: That escalated quickly. This list started with 15 names of women with insight on a particular issue of law and technology policy. In just over 24 hours, we have over 230 names of a wide variety of experts and over 100 more not yet a... |
| Aug 11, 2016 | ISPs and FCC Republicans celebrate FCC’s court loss on muni broadband | Epic Fireworks reader comments 148 with 89 posters participating
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| Jul 2, 2016 | Sorry, Apple, but your fix for phone spam isn’t good enough | Unwanted calls to mobile phones are by no means a new nuisance. But my company, Hiya, tracks call blocking, and we’ve noticed a meteoric rise in fraudulent activity — a 65% year-over-year growth in the number of spam calls our users receive... |
| Jul 2, 2016 | Sorry, Apple, but your fix for phone spam isn’t good enough | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Unwanted calls to mobile phones are by no means a new nuisance. But my company, Hiya, tracks call blocking, and we’ve noticed a meteori... |
| Jun 28, 2016 | Why ISPs’ fight against net neutrality probably won’t reach Supreme Court | The next stop for net neutrality?
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| Jun 14, 2016 | After net neutrality loss, ISPs get ready to take case to Supreme Court | The next stop for net neutrality?
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| Apr 18, 2016 | Did You Think the Battle Over Net Neutrality Was Over? Think Again | A landmark decision by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that will determine the fate of US rules protecting net neutrality could come as early as this week.
The central legal issue before the court is whether the FCC ove... |
| 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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| Apr 11, 2016 | U.S. ISPs Refuse to Disconnect Persistent Pirates | Signed into law nearly two decades ago, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) aimed to ready copyright law for the digital age.
The law introduced a safe harbor for Internet providers, meaning that they can’t be held liable for their p... |
| Jan 8, 2016 | ISPs mad that FCC wants faster broadband deployment | "Seems fast enough to me."
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| Oct 6, 2015 | How net neutrality violates the First Amendment (according to one ISP) | Ed Uthman reader comments 137 with 89 posters participating
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| May 14, 2015 | Why net neutrality rules have angered some small Internet providers | Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock reader comments 171 with 82 posters participating
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| May 13, 2015 | Broadband industry fears come true: FCC rules are costing them money | Dominik Meissner reader comments 328 with 124 posters participating
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| 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 | NTCA, others file suit to halt the FCC’s net neutrality rules | Already four wireless carriers have filed suit against the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality ruling.
The National Cable and Telecommunications Association, CTIA, the American Cable Association, and U.S. Telecom have all fil... |
| Apr 13, 2015 | Lawsuit Calls FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules “Arbitrary” And “Capricious” | As expected, the FCC’s recently passed net neutrality regulations came under fresh legal fire today. USTelecom, a telecommunications-focused trade group, filed suit, calling the FCC’s open Internet regulations “arbitrary” and “capricious.”
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| Apr 13, 2015 | Net neutrality rules published, lawsuit to overturn them immediately filed | reader comments 98 with 62 posters participating
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| Mar 24, 2015 | Broadband Companies File Charges Against FCC Over Net Neutrality Rules | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 24 March 2015, 10:03 pm
A telecommunications industry association and a Texas-based Internet service provider (ISP) were to formally challenge the new net neutrality rules of the Federal Communications Commission (FC... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | Big Telcos Love CISPA; More Immunity For Violating Our Customers Privacy?!? Sign Us Up! | It’s well known that the big telcos and the federal government have an all-too-cozy relationship when it comes to handing over data on telco customers. This has included ignoring all the rules and going so far as handing over information ba... |
