London Our last meeting in London before schlepping our gear towards Heathrow was with a charming activist named Claire Milne over coffee and tea near Kings Crossing. Claire is part of something called the Essential Services Access Network in Britain, which we’re clearly going to have to learn more about. Interestingly, we were talking about …
Tag: digital divide
Is Comcast’s “Internet Essentials” Failure Finally Going to be Exposed?
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 …
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 …