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Charter will pay $174.2m for defrauding New Yorkers over data speeds, the largest settlement ever paid by a US ISP Charter-Spectrum has settled a lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General that accused the company of defrauding New Yorkers through false advertising about the data-speeds they could expect from their plans . The settlement, for $174.2 million, is the largest ever paid by a US ISP.
A coalition of trade groups representing companies including Alphabet Inc, Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc, urged a U.S. appeals court to reinstate landmark "net neutrality" rules adopted in 2015 to guarantee an open internet. In a legal filing Monday, the Internet Association, Entertainment Software Association, Computer & Communications Industry Association, and Writers Guild of America West urged the reversal of the Trump administration decision to overturn the rules in December.
Just days before the Legislature is to consider a controversial net neutrality bill regulating internet service providers, a Verizon lawyer told lawmakers that those kinds of regulations are “very unrelated” to a recent incident in which his company slowed down data speeds for Bay Area firefighters actively battling a major fire. Verizon testified before an Assembly committee Friday in Sacramento, explaining why and how it “throttled” the Santa Clara County Fire Department earlier this summer during the Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest wildfire in state history.
The first Republican in the House of Representatives has joined the effort to save the Obama-era 2015 net neutrality rules. On Tuesday, Rep. Mike Coffman from Colorado told the website Politico that he plans to support the Congressional Review Act resolution drafted by Democrats, which aim to save rules the Republican-led .
In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission adopted historic Internet rules , when the Democratic-led commission approved 3-to-2, split along party lines, to assert extra government authority over the Internet and permitted enforcement of net neutrality rules that would prevent Internet providers-including cellular carriers-from blocking or throttling traffic or giving priority to Web services in exchange for payment . That came to an end on Monday, June 11, 2018 , following another FCC vote, split on party lines again , but breaking for the GOP.
After months of votes and procedural and bureaucratic moves, the Federal Communication Commission's decision to end the Obama-era laws governing net neutrality went into effect on Monday. , defended the move as necessary to remove what he has described as onerous regulations that restrict investment in new networks.
As Mignon Clyburn left the Federal Communications Commission, the longtime telecom regulator worried that the FCC is abandoning its "prime directive" of protecting consumers. "I'm an old Trekkie," Clyburn told Ars in a phone interview, while comparing the FCC's responsibility to the Star Trek fictional universe's Prime Directive .
The U.S. Senate voted 52 to 47 to advance a bill that would reverse the Federal Communications Commission decision in December to repeal landmark 2015 net neutrality rules. The margin was larger than expected with three Republicans voting with 47 Democrats and two independents.
As we've noted , you'd be pretty hard pressed to find a lawmaker more cozy with AT&T and Comcast than Tennessee Representative Marsha Blackburn. Blackburn played a starring role in helping industry giants kill net neutrality and broadband privacy protections , and has also supported letting ISPs write terrible state legislation banning them from owning or operating their own broadband networks.
Once approved, these applications will allow for the modification and installation of the Infinitus Superhighway RF and Optical components on each of the two Cessna aircraft the Company has arranged for use in connection with its upcoming demonstration tests of Infinitus. Upon approval, the Company intends to begin ground testing trials followed by flight testing trials in which the Company seeks to establish and maintain a self-healing 10Gb/s hybrid RF and Optical link between two aircraft in flight.
In this day and age, it is close to impossible for anyone to get through life without using the internet. That reality is even more true here in Alaska, where larger distances separate us and we have less infrastructure to connect us.
AT&T has opposed the FCC's 2015 net neutrality rules. And as the rules are set to expire, some supporters of the regulation are nervous AT&T and other ISPs could abuse their power on the net.
U.S. Senate Democrats launched efforts on Tuesday to win a vote to reinstate Obama-era rules guaranteeing an open internet, suggesting it would be a major issue in the 2018 mid-term elections. Democrats remain one Republican senator shy of winning a majority in the Senate to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's order to undo the 2015 open internet rules.
Republican-led Federal Communications Commission formally published a rule reversing long-standing and vital protections of the internet known as net neutrality . The FCC's new rule would let big corporations restrict how consumers access their favorite websites by forcing them to buy internet access in packages, paying more for "premium" service, as with cable television.
On December 14 2017, the American Federal Communications Commission repealed net neutrality laws which were implemented in 2015. Opponents to the outcome of the vote have since prepared legal arguments to counter this decision.
A group of 22 Democratic state attorneys general, including those from California and New York, have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of tough net neutrality rules for online traffic.
A Senate bill that would stop the Federal Communications Commission from repealing its net neutrality rules has 40 co-sponsors, Senate Democrats announced on Tuesday according to The Hill. Since the GOP has a majority in the Senate, it does not appear that the bill will pass, but Democrats now can force Republicans to vote on the issue in hopes of embarrassing them, because polls indicate that a large majority of the public supports keeping the net neutrality rules.
Remember that net neutrality legislation introduced by Rep. Marsha Blackburn ? TechCrunch is calling it "half-hearted" -- and suspect. It's not going to happen, it wouldn't help if it did and Blackburn isn't someone you want writing this kind of legislation.
US legislators and digital advocates are coming together in plans to reverse the FCC's December decision to end net neutrality protections in the US. Opponents of the US Federal Communication Commission's decision to end net neutrality on December 14 see promise in Congressional disapproval of the move.
The Federal Communications Commission repealed the Obama-era "net neutrality" rules Thursday, giving internet service providers like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T a free hand to slow or block websites and apps as they see fit or charge more for faster speeds. In a straight party-line vote of 3-2, the Republican-controlled FCC junked the longtime principle that said all web traffic must be treated equally.