Everybody’s talking about a rumored deal between Google and Verizon, that would allow Verizon to “allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege”. If true, this would be the first major strike against net neutrality. Accordingly, people are setting up [...]
Eight Democratic representatives for Texas signed an industry-written letter to the FCC calling for them to abandon attempts to regulate net neutrality. Completely coincidentally, they were all recipients of tens of thousands of dollars of lobbyist money. Now would be a good time to contact them and let them know that you want net neutrality.
Content providers are pushing for major price increases in the new year. What’s a cable company to do?
It’s the weekend, so why not take a few minutes out of your day to try and fight back against unfair usage caps and overage charges? On April 8th, the FCC published docket GN 09-51: In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — known as the stimulus package — Congress charged the Commission [...]
WIRED reports that consumer advocacy group FreePress is launching a petition calling for Time Warner to be investigated by Congress. Also, I note that Time Warner’s latest proposal is that they charge $2 per GB overage charges on their cheapest broadband offering. (Remember, the bandwidth costs them around 3¢ per GB.)
Take action against the Time Warner bandwidth caps by writing to the FCC to comment on the impact on video programming competition.
Chip Rosenthal of the Austin Community Technology & Telecommunications Commission posted on his twitter feed that people concerned about the Time Warner usage caps should bring up the issue at the commission meeting on April 8th. I went along to the meeting. Because the Time Warner issue wasn’t on the agenda, there couldn’t be any [...]
I happened to notice that Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) gave a speech at the 2009 National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NTCA) show on April 2nd, just as the news about the Time Warner usage caps was spreading. She told the audience [...] that she would resist efforts to mandate a la carte and network [...]
