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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Public interest groups on Tuesday asked the full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling that the Federal Communications Commission lacked legal authority to ...
A US appeals court on Thursday ruled the Federal Communications Commission did not have the legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules.. The decision is a blow to the outgoing ...
The FCC's net neutrality rules prevented internet service providers from throttling or blocking some content or charging more to deliver it. What is net neutrality? Why a federal appeals court ...
The ideas underlying net neutrality have a long pedigree in telecommunications practice and regulation. Services such as telegrams and the phone network (officially, the public switched telephone network or PSTN) have been considered common carriers under U.S. law since the Mann–Elkins Act of 1910, which means that they have been akin to public utilities and expressly forbidden to give ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight of broadband internet that was rescinded under former President ...
A three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in an industry lawsuit that accused the agency of exceeding its powers in bringing back the net ...
Net neutrality in the United States has been of concern since the Internet became open to public use through Internet service providers (ISPs). Net neutrality broadly encompasses the idea that all data traffic on the Internet should be treated equal, counter to past and planned actions of ISPs to offered tiered service plans that block or throttle access to selected sites at lower payment ...
It’s déjà vu all over again for net neutrality. On Thursday, the Democratic-majority FCC voted along party lines to adopt an order that would largely restore the agency’s net neutrality ...