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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 ...
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 ...
Net neutrality rules require internet service providers to treat internet data and users equally rather than restricting access, slowing speeds or blocking content for certain users. Supporters in ...
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 Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality was an event on July 12, 2017, in which various organizations and individuals advocated for net neutrality in the United States. The event was a response to plans by Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai to end United States government policies which establish net neutrality .
The so-called fair share idea, which some cast as a threat to net neutrality, is now being considered in India and Brazil. The latest net-neutrality threat is dead in Europe—for now—but it’s ...
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 ...
The decision leaves in place state neutrality rules adopted by California and others but may end more than 20 years of efforts to give federal regulators sweeping oversight over the internet.