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- As+Comcast+defends%2C+Markey+offers+net+neutrality+bill
- As+Comcast+defends%2C+Markey+offers+net+neutrality+billYou Go Markey Mark!ntElectronic Freedom Foundation......has links to contact your local rep. See eff.orgComcast is in troubleThe bill is sponsored by both the chairman and the ranking minority member of the subcommittee that's supposed to consider it. That's not guaranteed passage, but it's close, given that it's highly likely...
- Tags: markey, u.s. senate, comcast corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- Craigslist silently fixes their end in the Cox fiasco
- Craigslist silently fixes their end in the Cox fiascoPaper tigerYes George, you were right here, but being right about one case, which you persist in making all the case, does not mean you are right on your position on net neutrality.So kudos, but have you proved anything - NO. ...
- Tags: please let, net neutrality, enhanced qos, craigslist, snowe-dorgan, authentium, markey
- Discussion threads 2006-07-13
- Net Neutrality: Attack of the Clones
- Well, yesterday's response to George Ou has turned into a broadside from Richard Bennett. He says here that my posting is the "silliest thing ever written about Net Neutrality." Without going into why being attacked by Richard is a badge of honor for reasonable people, I'm just going...
- Tags: snowe, network, qos
- Blog posts 2006-07-08
- Thursday rally aims to 'save the Internet'
- Anne Broache posts on News.com's Politics blog about a rally to save net neutrality, featuring Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Moby, Thursday in Washington. Sponsored by the Save the Internet Coalition, the rally takes place at the Cannon House Office Building at 1 pm and is billed as a forum...
- Tags: markey, internet, ed markey
- Blog posts 2006-05-17
- Net neutrality bill fails in House. Surprised?
- Who is really surprised to learn that AT&T and Verizon pack more weight around the halls of Congress than Google and Yahoo? The House Committee on Energy and Commerce shot down an amendment by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) to a telco regulation bill that would have banned a two-tier Internet....
- Tags: markey, ed markey, telecommunications company
- Blog posts 2006-04-27
- Congressman promises greater scrutiny for search companies
- The case of the US v Google has created shockwaves among users, as people start to think about just how much personally identifying information Google and the other search giants collect. The shockwaves have hit Washington as Rep. Edward Market (D-Mass) announced plans to introduce legislation to limit what they...
- Tags: markey
- Blog posts 2006-01-27
- Congressman to SBC IP head: why are you only targeting the well-off?
- Congressman to SBC IP head: why are you only targeting the well-off?It's no secret...That the Telecoms go after business and the wealthy first. That's where the money is.The Congressman is right.hello - because they can pay...Despite being a regulated carrier, SBC is a public corporation that has to make...
- Tags: sbc, sbc ip, markey, ip
- Discussion threads 2005-04-21
- Congressman to SBC IP head: why are you only targeting the well-off?
- Broadcasting & Cable magazine's John Eggerton sat in on a fairly contentious House of Representatives Telecommunications Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday.When the subject of the hearing turned to VoIP, there was a frank exchange of views between Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and SBC's Lee Ann Champion, senior executive veep for IP...
- Tags: markey, sbc, ed markey
- Blog posts 2005-04-21
Additional Resources
- NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?
- So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...
- Tags: web, advertisement, cable company, internet service provider, notice, nebuad, internet service providers (isps), cable, channel management, network technology, internet, telecommunications, personal technology, marketing, networking, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Risking Another Frontline Disaster
- The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial that FCC chair Kevin Martin is about to screw things up again on the public wireless Internet front. The first time around Martin tried to rig the D block auction to hand 700MHz spectrum over to Frontline Wireless, formed by former commissioner...
- Tags: fcc, auction, journal, m2z, federal government, government, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere
- The latest net neutrality bill, offered by Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), is a second try to treat neutrality as an antitrust issue, Ars Technica says. It's essentially the same bill that failed in 2006. The bill is intended to "promote competition,...
- Tags: bill, comcast corp., u.s. congress, net neutrality, internet, networking, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Comcast's true speeds and the BitTorrent deal
- So, I talked to former ZD technical director and editor at large George Ou last week. He's been looking at Comcast's claims for its DOCSIS 3.0 rollout in Minneapolis. I passed along Comcast's projections that the service would 50 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps up. ...
- Tags: bittorrent, network, comcast corp., mbps, internet service providers (isps), networking, internet, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Auction over, FCC ponders public safety D block
- Bidding has closed on the great 700 MHz auction and the FCC has raised $20 billion from the spectrum given so long ago to the great television networks of the past. That's $4.75 billion for the prized C block, but no word yet on who the ultimate winner is. Pretty...
- Tags: fcc, auction, d, federal government, government, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- MPAA: Net neutrality an assault on creativity
- So the movie industry is lining up four-square with Comcast on this net neutrality thing. MPAA boss Dan Glickman just gave a speech PDF this week, in which he announced: Today MPAA and all of our studios are standing up in opposition to broad-based government...
- Tags: mpaa, net neutrality, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Comcast paid people to take up seats at FCC hearing
- So, I thought this line in Anne Broache's report from Cambridge was odd: "Such intercession into a user's access to the Internet should not result in...the transformation of BitTorrent into BitTrickle," said Markey, drawing a smattering of applause from one corner of the high-ceiling auditorium....
- Tags: fcc, comcast corp., internet, federal government, government, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Support for Markey bill as Comcast strikes at FCC power
- Support for Markey bill as Comcast strikes at FCC powerWe already have laws for Comcast.Enough with the laws already!Someone should try enforcing a few. Where is the Dept Of Homeland Security when Comcast is launching DOS attacks on the public?See...the FCC is a......toothless police dog. We need a NN law.Comcast...
- Tags: federal government, comcast corp., fcc
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- Support for Markey bill as Comcast strikes at FCC power
- Google, Amazon.com -- as well as FreePress and Public Knowledge -- are lining up in favor of Rep. Ed Markey's new version of net neutrality legislation, PC World says. In the last go-round of the net neutrality debate -- in which legislation went down to failure -- the big...
- Tags: fcc, comcast corp., telecommunications, net neutrality, federal government, internet, government, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Google on Markey net neutrality bill:let's stop the "gatekeepers"
- Google on Markey net neutrality bill:let's stop the "gatekeepers"I thought this blog was about religion?Why don't you discuss Scientology with me? You have the right to blog about a cult when you like to, but I can't comment on it when I like to?
- Tags: blogging, net neutrality, google inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- Google on Markey net neutrality bill:let's stop the "gatekeepers"
- Without mentioning Comcast's broadband Internet throttling by name, Google's Public Policy analyst and blogger Derek Slater has just made a post resoundingly in favor of the net neutrality legislation introduced this week by Congressmen Ed Markey and Chip Pickering: Today, Rep. Ed Markey and Chip...
- Tags: google inc., broadband, net neutrality, broadband policy, internet, broadband internet, network technology, telecommunications, networking, russell shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- As Comcast defends, Markey offers net neutrality bill
- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet, introduced a bill Wednesday that would prevent Internet service providers such as Comcast from interfering with consumers' use of the network. The bill was cosponsored by Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.). ...
- Tags: comcast corp., broadband, net neutrality, broadband internet, network technology, internet, telecommunications, networking, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
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