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The Senate narrowly voted Thursday to overturn tough new privacy rules for internet service providers, employing a rarely used procedure to invalidate restrictions that cable and wireless companies strongly opposed. The Republican-backed measure, approved 50-48, repeals regulations approved on a 3-2 party line vote in October by the Federal Communications Commission when it was controlled by Democrats.
The Republican-led Senate moved Thursday to undo Obama-era regulations that would have forced internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon to ask customers' permission before they could use or sell much of their personal information. Senators voted along party lines, 50-48, to eliminate the rules.
President Trump officially picked Pai on Monday to serve as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, the agency that reviews media mergers and broadcast licenses. The net neutrality rules, approved by the FCC in 2015 amid an outpouring of online support, are intended to keep the Internet open and fair.
Citing unidentified people, Bloomberg and Politico both reported Friday that the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission will be Ajit Pai, currently a commissioner at the agency. Pai's chief of staff, Matthew Berry, declined to comment.
President Donald Trump plans to name Ajit Pai as head of the Federal Communications Commission, according to a report from Politico's Alex Byers and Tony Romm. Pai has served as a GOP commissioner at the FCC since 2012.
On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, one of the biggest tech-related questions surrounding his administration is the future of net neutrality. The Federal Communications Commission under President Barack Obama has taken steps to prevent internet service providers from favoring certain kinds of content over others, thereby preserving the core principles of a free and open internet.
Donald Trump Tax reform push sparks lobbying frenzy Poll: More than 80 percent think country more deeply divided than in the past Trump picks strike fear into net neutrality backers MORE 's appointments to his transition team are sparking fears among net neutrality supporters that the internet rules are on the chopping block. Trump has tapped tech experts Jeff Eisenach and Mark Jamison, two critics of net neutrality, to head his transition team for the Federal Communications Commission.
Net neutrality could be on the chopping block. The principle that any internet service provider must permit access to any content regardless of source, net neutrality may be threatened by president-elect Donald Trump's new administration.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., announced a new bill during a visit Monday to Westelcom that could expand funding options to help internet service providers bring broadband access to rural areas. Dubbed the Broadband Connections for Rural Opportunities Program Act, the legislation seeks to combine loan and grant programs that could finance large-scale broadband infrastructure projects in the north country.
Earlier this month the court halted the FCC's attempt to dismantle protectionist state broadband laws, which have been written and lobbied for by ISPs in 19 states to hinder municipal broadband expansion . The New York Times takes a look at how broadband providers like AT&T, Comcast and CenturyLlink refuse to upgrade many rural customers, but simultaneously are fighting to pass laws ensuring these towns can't upgrade themselves, either.
When the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve net neutrality rules last year, many people saw it as a done deal. Supporters cheered the decision as a victory for the free and open internet, where the deep pockets of big companies couldn't buy faster web speeds over struggling startups.
A wireless trade association on Friday urged the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reverse a ruling upholding the Obama administration's landmark rules barring internet service providers from obstructing or slowing down consumer access to web content. A three-judge panel in June, in a 2-1 decision, backed the Federal Communications Commission's so-called net neutrality rules put in place last year to make internet service providers treat all internet traffic equally.
Several wireless, cable and broadband trade associations on Friday urged the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reverse a ruling upholding the Obama administration's landmark rules barring internet service providers from obstructing or slowing consumer access to web content. A three-judge panel in June, in a 2-1 decision, backed the Federal Communications Commission's so-called net neutrality rules put in place last year to make internet service providers treat all internet traffic equally.
The good news came Monday: a federal appeals court upheld the U.S. Federal Communication Commission's "Net neutrality" rules. On a 2-1 favorable rating, with one judge only issuing a partial dissent, the appeals court's decision primarily dealt with the FCC's reclassification of broadband internet service as a common carrier -- a utility -- just like electric power.
Last year the Federal Communications Commission [official website] passed new rules [JURIST report] that prevent service providers from offering speedier lands to those willing to pay extra. This caused controversy between businesses such as Google and Netflix with service providers like AT&T , Verizon and Comcast [company website].
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the government's "net neutrality" rules that require internet providers to treat all web traffic equally. The 2-1 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is a win for the Obama administration, consumer groups and content companies such as Netflix that want to prevent online content from being blocked or channeled into fast and slow lanes.
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Federal Communications Commission's landmark net neutrality rules, a big boost to the Obama administration and a blow to Internet service providers in a ruling that could determine how consumers access content on the Internet. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled for the Obama administration on a 2-1 vote.
Maryland tech giant, AiNETA , announced today that Cogent Communications has finalized plans to extend services into the Meet-me-room at One Market Center, AiNET's Baltimore data center. This move completes Cogent's extensions of service into all four of AiNET's data centers, located in strategic areas of the state of Maryland.