NCTA Reaction to FCC Decision on Comcast/BitTorrent Complaint
During an Opening Meeting this morning, the FCC issued an adjudication in the matter of “Formal Complaint of Free Press and Public Knowledge Against Comcast Corporation for Secretly Degrading...
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Coverage of today’s meeting and some reaction to the decision… Richard Bennet of Broadband Politics: A sad day for the Internet Randolph J. May of the Free State Foundation: Hard Cases Make Bad Law: On...
View ArticleHow the “neutrality” debate has evolved
Earlier this week, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf said something that brightened my day. …the real question for today’s broadband networks is not whether they need to be managed, but...
View ArticleGenachowski Proposes New Rules
Yesterday, during a speech at the Brookings Institute, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed new rules that would affect Internet access providers. Saying the FCC must be a "smart cop on the beat...
View ArticleA Reminder of What "Net Neutrality" Is Really About
More than a year ago, I put up a post expressing my pleasure about how the “net neutrality” discussion had evolved over time. Specifically, I focused on the comments of Vint Cerf between 2006 and 2008,...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Debate Tonight
NCTA’s Executive Vice President, James Assey, will be participating tonight in an Oxford-style debate on net neutrality, presented by Tech Debate as part of Web 2.0 Expo New York. The participants will...
View ArticleOn Net Neutrality and the First Amendment
Today, NCTA President & CEO Kyle McSlarrow gave a speech at the Media Institute, the nonprofit research foundation specializing in communications policy issues. Fittingly, since the Institute is...
View ArticleProviders Back Web Freedom
The column below appeared today in The USA Today, as an opposing view to a USA Today editorial. Opposing view on ‘Net neutrality’: Providers back Web freedom By Kyle McSlarrow On Tuesday, a federal...
View ArticleFree Press Didn’t Invent the Internet – But They Do Want to Re-Define It
Yesterday, FCC Chairman Genachowski announced his intent to launch a proceeding exploring a new regulatory framework for broadband services. Since then, there’s been lots of commentary from industry...
View ArticleIntroducing the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group
If there is any one common theme that has arisen from the years-long policy debate surrounding network neutrality, reasonable network management and preserving an open Internet experience – it’s that...
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The First Amendment & the Cable Industry: Laying the foundation
The First Amendment is generally understood as one of the most important of our Constitutional rights, and easily understood as a right secured to individuals. But most people don’t understand how the...
View ArticleThe First Amendment & the Cable Industry: Net Neutrality and the First Amendment
In the previous segment of this series, I briefly touched on how government officials may attempt to weigh in on questions of what content the media, and cable systems, can/cannot or should/should not...
View ArticleThe First Amendment & the Cable Industry: A better way
In the previous segment, we looked at how First Amendment principles manifest themselves in how the Internet should or shouldn’t be regulated. And I concluded that media – including ISPs – should be...
View ArticleLevel 3’s Appeal for Government Intervention Is Unwarranted
The blogosphere has been buzzing since last night, with all manner of “experts” offering opinions about the dispute between Comcast and Level 3 over their commercial arrangement for the exchange of...
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Public Policy Discussion with FTC and FCC Commissioners
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz at The Cable Show 2011 Public Policy Lunch FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz and FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn sat down at the Public...
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What’s at Stake When the Open Internet Goes on Trial?
Today, the federal appeals court in Washington, DC heard arguments in a closely watched case in which Verizon Communications is challenging the FCC’s 2010 Open Internet order. We aren’t in the...
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Our Opinion on “The Opinion”
After much anticipation, the DC Court of Appeals finally issued its decision on Verizon’s appeal of the FCC’s 2010 Open Internet order (commonly called net neutrality). While it’s a fair assumption...
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The Internet Doesn’t Need Phone-Era Rules
Originally published in USA Today, January 16th, 2014 & on LinkedIn Pulse, January 17th, 2014 by NCTA President and CEO Michael Powell Americans deserve an open Internet: They had it before the...
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Why It’s a Good Thing That Broadband Isn’t a Common Carrier
In a recent decision, the D.C. Court of Appeals vacated key elements of the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC’s) 2010 Open Internet order. In doing so, it has revived discourse around the open...
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The Growing Concern Over Title II
Since the DC Circuit Court struck down the 2010 Open Internet Order in January, we’ve seen thousands of stories and columns written about net neutrality and the future of the Internet. The significant...
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