HUNDREDS WEIGH IN ON NET NEUTRALITY
[SOURCE: PCWorld, AUTHOR: Grant Gross, IDG News Service]
Hundreds of groups and individual Internet users sounded off to the U.S.
Federal Communications Commission on net neutrality in comments filed Monday,
the deadline for responding to the agency's inquiry into the proposed
regulation. Individual Internet users, trade groups and advocacy organizations
filed about 670 comments about net neutrality rules with the FCC Monday.
Individuals and organizations have submitted nearly 29,000 comments on net
neutrality since the FCC opened its inquiry in late March. Net neutrality
advocates want the FCC or the U.S. Congress to prohibit large broadband
providers such as AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. from blocking or slowing Web
content from competitors. Many of the comments Monday came from individual
Internet users who asked the FCC to protect them against new fees that they
fear broadband providers could charge Web content providers.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134632/article.html
* Public Floods FCC with Net Neutrality Support
Tens of thousands of public comments supporting Net Neutrality flooded the
Federal Communications Commission before the close of the agency's official
inquiry yesterday. In a landslide, well over 95 percent of the comments called
for rules that prohibit phone and cable companies from discriminating against
Web sites or services.
* Senators Push FCC on Network Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should expand the focus of its
network neutrality inquiry to include the impact of carrier practices on
content providers, U.S. Senators Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Olympia Snowe
(R-Maine) said Monday.
http://www.internetnews.com/article.php/3689261
* Dorgan and Snowe File with FCC
Under normal circumstances, U.S. Senators don't file comments in proceedings at
the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). And filing reply comments is
unheard of. But Net Neutrality champions Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Olympia
Snowe (R-ME) did just that.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1094
* CDT Responds to Arguments in FCC Neutrality Inquiry
[SOURCE: Center for Democracy and Technology]
In reply comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
today, CDT emphasized that certain types of discriminatory practices by network
operators could undermine the Internet's openness to innovation and hence
warrant close scrutiny. CDT responded to several arguments raised by opponents
of policies to preserve Internet neutrality, but also said that the FCC should
not move on its own authority to mandate neutrality by regulation. The comments
follow up on CDT's June 15 comments to the FCC outlining a number of ways that
network operators might differentiate among Internet traffic.
CDT Reply Comments: http://www.cdt.org/speech/20070716fcc-comments.pdf
CDT Neutrality Comments: http://www.cdt.org/speech/20060615fcc-neutrality.pdf
* Net Neutrality Vital to Creative Artists AND American Public, CV Tells FCC
http://www.creativevoices.us/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=186
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