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Networking & Wireless, Tech

Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices

November 8, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

Internet service providers and their lobby groups are fighting a US plan to prohibit discrimination in access to broadband services. In particular, ISPs want the Federal Communications Commission to drop the plan’s proposal to require that prices charged to consumers […]


Policy, State & Local

Washington state: Comcast was “even more deceptive” than we thought

December 22, 2017

Via: ArsTechnica

The attorney general of Washington has filed a new amended complaint in an ongoing lawsuit against Comcast, claiming that “new evidence” reveals “even more deceptive conduct than previously alleged.” The lawsuit, which was initially submitted in August 2016, alleged that […]


Networking & Wireless, Tech

Comcast and other ISPs celebrate imminent death of net neutrality rules

April 27, 2017

Via: ArsTechnica

The nation’s biggest home Internet and mobile broadband providers say they’re big fans of net neutrality—but they’re also really glad that the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to dismantle its net neutrality rules. “We continue to strongly support a free […]


Networking & Wireless, Tech

Google Fiber could get FCC help in fights to compete against AT&T

April 18, 2017

Via: ArsTechnica

Google Fiber and other ISPs that want to build new networks might get good news from the Federal Communications Commission, which is considering rules that would speed up the process of attaching wires to utility poles. Current FCC rules allow […]


Networking & Wireless, Tech

Trump, our next president, promised to block AT&T/Time Warner merger

November 10, 2016

Via: ArsTechnica

Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election might be big trouble for AT&T’s attempt to buy Time Warner, and it could even threaten Comcast’s 5-year-old acquisition of NBCUniversal. We can’t be certain that Trump will follow through on statements he […]


Policy, State & Local

FCC changes cable box rules to please industry, gets blowback anyway

September 9, 2016

Via: ArsTechnica

The Federal Communications Commission has ditched its original proposal to reform the set-top box industry and accepted an alternative plan put forward by ca­ble companies, but is making changes that cable TV lobbyists aren’t happy about. In February, the FCC […]


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Set-top saga—Comcast says it’s “not feasible” to comply with FCC cable box rules

July 6, 2016

Via: ArsTechnica

It’s no secret that cable companies hate the Federal Communications Commission plan to make TV channels more widely available on third-party devices and applications. The proposal would force pay-TV providers to make channels and on-demand content available to third parties, […]