Posts in the Net Neutrality Category

 
Google has entered the wireless space with the help of T-Mobile, and there seems to be a lot riding on this deal for both. T-Mobile has to be thinking about how they can capitalize on this opportunity to pull some market share back from giants like AT&T and Verizon, and last week, Google released the […]

It seems that Comcast is taking the first steps toward implementing data usage caps, a move that the FCC is not too happy with.
This Spring, Comcast began testing technology in select markets that slows down connections for its heaviest bandwidth users, with hopes of fully implementing the system by the end of the year. This […]

In Monday’s FCC hearing [video link] on Comcast’s network management practices, Vuze, a video sharing Website that uses P2P technologies to enable near zero distribution costs, apparently argued that BitTorrent does not hog bandwidth. Real World IT’s George Ou responded with a wonderfully cogent and fact-based response that demonstrated BitTorrent was a gigantic upstream […]

According to c|net, one of the questions asked of Senator Obama in today’s MySpace/MTV “dialogue” is MoveOn.org’s, “Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to reinstate Net Neutrality as the law of the land? And would you pledge to only appoint FCC commissioners that support open Internet principles like Net […]

Opponents of net neutrality (i.e., carriers) have been on the ropes for much of the year. When the Democrats took control of the U.S. Congress in January, legislating net neutrality was one of their first initiatives. There was a brief respite for the carriers in September when the U.S. Department of Justice issued […]