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AT& T revealed it may implement a pay plan that would force providers of mobile services to pay for the cost of data usage associated with streaming movies and smartphone applications. The announcement is perceived by industry analysts as indicating the company believes a U.S. District Court will overturn the Federal Communications ...

A new study argues against the adoption of network neutrality regulations because the public approves of Internet Service Providers blocking content such as malware and child pornography. Author Gerald R. Faulhaber, professor emeritus at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Law School, also notes allowing ...

Network neutrality, a euphemistically labeled and insidious concept, is perhaps the biggest current threat to the Internet, chiefly because it threatens property rights by supplying the wrong answer to the question of “Who owns the pipes?” The House of Representatives correctly voted April 8 to rescind the net neutrality rules ...

From the Korea Information Society Development Network: Communications & Convergence Review Network neutrality has been at the center of US telecommunications policy for several years, culminating in a recent FCC order imposing a limited form of net neutrality on US broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The regulatory imposition ...

Documents obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered close and potentially unlawful contact between a big-govenrment advocacy group and high-ranking members of the Federal Communications Commission. The email and phone correspondences display a coordinated effort between FCC employees and the advocacy group Free Press ...

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is calling for the federal government to administer regulations over peering disputes, disagreements between Internet service providers and the content providers that pay for the transmission of network traffic. Hastings wrote to House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications Subcommittee ...