AT&T asks employees to lobby FCC on net neutrality

AT&T Inc. is encouraging employees to join its lobbying campaign against proposed federal rules that would restrict the ways broadband companies can manage traffic on their networks.

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Google says it still stands by Net neutrality

Google Inc. denied that it had reversed its stance on the issue of "Net neutrality" and dismissed a story in Monday's edition of The Wall Street Journal on the subject as "confused."

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FCC OKs Study of Internet Service

The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it will study the business practices of high-speed Internet providers and consider adopting regulations to ensure all Web traffic is treated equally.

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AT&T Offers New Concessions on BellSouth

While much of Washington enjoyed a holiday break, lawyers for AT&T Inc. and the government worked marathon hours to forge an agreement that would allow the company to complete its $85 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp.

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Intel Offers Support for Net Legislation

Intel Corp. has waded into the debate over the future of the Internet, joining major Web companies in supporting legislation that would force Internet service providers to treat all traffic equally.

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Future of the Internet Highway Debated

On the Internet, the traffic cops are blind — they don't look at the data they're directing, and they don't give preferential treatment.

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AT&T says it's all for net neutrality now, as long as it can cut priority access deals with content providers. Critics say a ban on those kind of deals is what net neutrality is really about.

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Last week you'll recall that the cable industry's chief lobbying and policy group, the NCTA, unveiled a new talking point suggesting that network neutrality protections would violate the cable industry's First Amendment rights.

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Jared Newman Dec 10, 2009 10:52 am AT&T is huffing and puffing about limiting the data consumption of smartphone users and educating them on the meaning of a megabyte. Yet we know nothing about the carrier's actual plans.

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City governments on the east and west coasts are considering resolutions supporting net neutrality efforts at the FCC and in Congress. Looks like New York's could be in cement by late December. San Francisco just sent its proposed statement to a rules committee.

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The city famous for cable cars plans to vote Tuesday on a resolution supporting an FCC rulemaking that would affect cable systems.

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Net neutrality: Like it or loathe it, you can't deny it's a hot topic at the moment. And while Cisco's just done some research to show bandwidth hogs don't necessarily exist in the way they're portrayed, the GOP is trying to delay the FCC's vote.

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An interesting perspective, from The Goldwater Institute and Americans for Tax Reform.

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Consumer advocates are asking a lot of questions about a company as large as Comcast controlling both the delivery pipe for broadband, voice and TV -- as well as a giant slice of the content being delivered over those pipes.

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COMCAST, the second-largest US cable television and Internet communications service provider, has a new broadband traffic throttling scheme installed and operating in all of its markets.

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WHILE MANY HAVE WELCOMED the unfettered reign of the Internet service providers (ISPs) coming to an end in the US in favour of network neutrality, a team of learned legal minds has warned that all might not be as it seems.

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Washington — Comcast characterized the Federal Communications Commission as a winded fighter on the ropes in its version of the battle over the agency's BitTorrent decision that found the top U.S. cable operator in violation of the agency's network-openness principles.

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the latest version of the popular uTorrent BitTorrent client is slightly more intelligent, detecting network congestion and adjusting its behavior in order to compensate.

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A leading US academic on network economics argues that net neutrality is a good thing—but ISPs aren't the only potential gatekeepers on the 'Net. "Search neutrality" might well be needed next.

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With the FCC launching a rule-making proceeding on net neutrality, a pair of bills have been introduced to Congress that would bar the FCC from issuing "any regulations regarding the Internet."

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New net neutrality regulations, as proposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, don't make sense because some Internet traffic is already prioritized and needs to continue to be, two networking engineers said Thursday.

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Proponents of net neutrality would likely respond that it's necessary to preserve the Web's long-standing openness.

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As the FCC prepares to lay down tougher net neutrality rules, hundreds of nonprofit groups are filing comments urging the agency to go slow on the policy. Is telco funding behind this push? Ars investigates the murky world of lobbying.

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John McCain, arguably the most nontechnical of all U.S. Senators (which is quite a feat), has officially thrown his hat into the anti-Net neutrality ring and introduced a bill similar to the amendment sponsored by Senator Kay Bailey-Hutchinson a few weeks ago.

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The American Cable Association, which represents cable network operators, is calling on the FCC to stop content providers from using wholesale arrangements to restrict consumer access to lawful content.

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Top Cable Operator Challenges Commission's Judgment On Peer-To-peer Traffic In D.C. Federal Appeals Court

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As cynical as I may be about any government solution to any problem, even I am amazed at the level of hubris required to propose threats of physical violence against a person based on the speed of electron flows through wires and computers they own.

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McCain, who once described himself as technologically "illiterate" and is the single largest senate recipient of telecom lobby money, is now campaigning against the net neutrality fundamentals recently reaffirmed by FCC actions.

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WASHINGTON—There's nothing neutral in the battle between AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. over the future of the Internet.

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The FCC voted unanimously yesterday to move forward with the debate in an effort to formalize net neutrality guidelines. Senator John McCain followed up by introducing a bill that would prohibit the FCC from governing communications.

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