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No Ifs, Ands or Butts, the New FCC Must Focus on Neutrality
The Denver Post today urged a new FCC to get its mind off of “buttocks” and onto more serious issues like Net Neutrality. [more]
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Wanted: FCC Chair Who Can Deliver
Wanted: a leader who understands that the “open” Internet doesn’t mean a burst pipe, thinks a diverse media is more than just a few minority network anchors, and isn’t afraid to battle chest-thumping corporate lobbyists to protect the public’s interest. [more]
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DECEMBER 2, 2008 - Today, The Open Internet Coalition sent letters to the co-chairs of President-elect Barack Obama’s Presidential Transition Project praising President-elect Obama’s support for open Internet issues during the campaign and setting setting forth four key areas where the new administration can have the greatest impact in fulfilling the president-elect’s policies.
Click here to download the letter.
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AUGUST 20, 2008 - Today, the Federal Communications Commission published an enforcement order punishing Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, for blocking Internet users' access to legal online content and services. The order, approved by a bipartisan majority on Aug. 1, requires Comcast to stop its ongoing practice of blocking Internet content by the end of the year and disclose all "network management" practices. - Free Press
Download the Comcast Order from FCC.gov.
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AUGUST 1, 2008 - The FCC Order will send a message to entrepreneurs and innovators that their inventions will be able to work on any broadband connection, without first seeking permission of a cable or telephone company. It sets a baseline for unacceptable network management practices by broadband operators, and will help ensure that the broadband Internet can remain as an open platform for continued technology innovation and growth.
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MAY 19, 2008 - The editors at the New York Times believe that Congress needs to protect the openness of the Internet.
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| The Case for Universal Broadband in America: Now! The failure to achieve President Bush’s 2004 goal of universal broadband access to the Internet "in every corner of America by the year 2007" has cost our nation hundreds of billions of dollars in added economic development and over a million newly-created high-paying jobs, according to a report by the nonprofit Center for Creative Voices in Media. |
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| More Americans are accessing the Internet over wireless devices than ever. Consumers Union and Consumer Federation of America highlight
the lack of price competition in the wireless data marketplace in letters to
Senators Kohl, Klobuchar and Rockefeller.
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