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The 2000s: A History of the FCC’s Internet Policy Deregulation

[Source: Media Access Project, by Kamilla Kovacs, August 30, 2010]
Throughout years of debate on open Internet protections, cable and telecommunications carriers have continually argued that strong net neutrality rules will hurt investment. They maintain that ...

FCC's Plan for 'Net Neutrality' Rules Falters

[Source: LA Times, by Editorial, August 7, 2010]
The FCC has halted discussions amid reports spread that Google and Verizon will propose their own, less regulatory framework for Net neutrality.

F.C.C. Chief Opposes Fees for Internet Priority

[Source: The New York Times, by Edward Wyatt, August 5, 2010]
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that he believed it was “unacceptable” for Internet service providers to offer faster Internet transmission to content providers ...

On Defining the Third Way

[Source: Benton Foundation, by Amina Fazlullah and Alexandra Wood, August 3, 2010]
Regarding Reclassification:  A series of blog posts exploring the legal landscape of Communications Act Title I and II reclassification

48 Members Of Congress Tell FCC To Back Off Broadband Action

[Source: Broadcasting & Cable, by John Eggerton, July 30, 2010]
Reps. Gene Green (D-Tex.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) have introduced a concurrent resolution asking the FCC to hold off on reclassifying broadband or clarifying and expanding network neutrality regs ...

How Should the FCC Regulate Broadband? A Roundup of ‘Third Way’ Comments

[Source: BroadbandBreakfast.com, by Rahul Gaitonde, July 16, 2010]
WASHINGTON July 16, 2010 – After the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision upholding Comcast’s ability to thwart broadband traffic over the peer-to-peer file-sharing software BitTorrent, the ...

Rural Wireless Companies Tell FCC to Unlock Phones

[Source: Washington Post, by Cecilia Kang, July 15, 2010]
Japanese cellphone giant NTT Docomo said last week it will begin to offer unlocked phones to its customers next spring, a move that has rural U.S. wireless carriers asking the Federal ...

Hacking the Policy Space

[Source: CultureWork, by Helen De Michiel]
I am sitting with a group of public media and community arts leaders at a recent lunch meeting hosted by Charles Benton, CEO of The Benton Foundation. We are here for the annual media reform ...

Highlights from 2010 Media Grantmaking — The State and Future of the Field

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The 2010 Funder Conversation: Media Grantmaking — The State (and Future) of the FieldPresented by: Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media and the Media Democracy FundHosted by: The Open Society ...

Resources from Broadband Regulation and Rural America Webinar

[Source: May 24, 2010]
 Resources from the National Rural Assembly Webinar, Broadband Reclassification to Title II are available now.  See attached presentations about about what Title II Reclassification means to rural ...