New Orleans For several years, we have bombarded the FCC with complaints from our members in Little Rock, Houston, Shreveport and elsewhere about the travesty of Comcast’s so-called “internet essentials” program. Some will remember that a condition of the toothless FCC’s approval of Comcast’s giant acquisition of NBC/Universal was Comcast’s creation of a $10 internet access …
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FCC Caving in on Net Neutrality – What Next?
New Orleans OK, let’s get this straight. Compared to other developed countries around the world in the United States we already have slower and more expensive internet, and few workable programs to assure equality of access. Under a Democratic President though we should be able to expect some progress in this area though, right? Instead …
New FCC Rules and Stopping Comcast
Edinburgh Some things are certain today. It will rain in Scotland, and Comcast will continue to quickly exercise monopoly power over the internet, almost making a mockery of the recently proposed “new” rules by the FCC to curb exactly these kinds of abuses. Comcast and Netflix came to an agreement for Netflix to pay them …