- Judge Won't Block California Net Neutrality Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Handing the cable industry a defeat, a federal judge in California on Tuesday refused to prohibit the state from enforcing its net neutrality law. ...
- Net Neutrality Necessary For Public Safety, Groups Tell FCC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Advocacy groups including Public Knowledge, Common Cause and Free Press, as well as officials in Santa Clara County, are urging the FCC to restore the Obama-era open internet rules. ...
- Comcast Urged To Abandon 'Inconceivable' Plan To Impose Data Caps During Pandemic
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Comcast should reverse the decision to impose data caps, and reconsider "any perversion of the principles of net neutrality in Massachusetts," state lawmakers say. ...
- Rural Broadband Carriers Urge FCC To Define Broadband As 100 Mbps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 21, 2020
The current standard of 25 Mbps downstream "does not reflect what American consumers need today, let alone tomorrow," NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association and the Fiber Broadband Association tell the ...
- T-Mobile Thinks Small, Adds 130 Towns To Its New Home Internet System
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, November 10, 2020
With home broadband "broken, especially for those in rural areas, it's time cable and telco ISPs have some competition," says exec. ...
- FCC Affirms Decision To Scrap Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 27, 2020
The FCC voted 3-2 Tuesday to affirm its 2017 repeal of regulations that prohibited internet service providers from blocking or throttling traffic. ...
- SparkPost Expands Its IntelliSeeds Email Data Network
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 3, 2020
IntelliSeeds, launched in 2019, now covers several additional countries in Europe, the company says. ...
- Ban On Data Caps Is 'Outdated,' Charter Tells FCC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Charter says the conditions of its 2016 merger with Time Warner Cable, including a ban on data caps, place the company "at a competitive disadvantage." ...
- Roku Asks FCC To Reject Charter's Request For Permission To Impose Data Caps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 7, 2020
"Data caps prevent consumers from working remotely, learning at a distance, and engaging with friends, family, and online media," Roku says in a new FCC filing. ...
- Massachusetts AG Urges FCC To Reject Charter's Request To Allow Data Caps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 24, 2020
"In light of the continued pandemic, the resulting increase in residential broadband use, and Charter's position as the sole fixed-broadband provider in almost all of its Massachusetts territories, it ...
- FCC Should Reject Charter Petition Over Data Caps, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 22, 2020
It's "hard to imagine a worse time for Charter to ask for permission to hike prices on consumers and restrict broadband service," the groups write. ...
- Broadband Industry Fights To Block 'Outlier' Privacy Law
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 11, 2020
Maine's new broadband privacy law is "an extreme outlier," industry lobbying groups are telling a federal judge. ...
- Video Streamers Maintain High Consumer Satisfaction Scores, Pay TV Sees Lower Results
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Video streamers earned a score of 76 out of 100, while at the low end, subscription TV (cable, satellite, telco) earned a 64 number, The American Customer Satisfaction Index foun ...
- Maine Broadband Privacy Law Doesn't Violate First Amendment, Free Speech Advocates Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 4, 2020
"The protection of privacy is often crucial to free speech," the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University writes in a friend-of-the-court brief filed this week with U.S. District Cou ...
- Maine Defends Broadband Privacy Law Against First Amendment Challenge
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 29, 2020
"Maine's Law is guided by the urgent need to safeguard the privacy of Internet consumers," Attorney General Aaron Frey tells a federal judge. ...
- Record Labels Ask Judge To Uphold $1 Billion Piracy Judgment Against Cox
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 2, 2020
"Time and time again, Cox made clear that it unreasonably prioritized collecting subscription fees from infringers over addressing its rampant infringement problem," a group of record labels argue to U. ...
- Firefox Starts Encrypting Domain Names
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 25, 2020
The move could help prevent broadband access providers like Comcast and AT&T from using subscribers' personal data for commercial purposes. ...
- Maine Privacy Battle Could Shape Nationwide Laws
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 20, 2020
"If the ISPs win this First Amendment argument, it's difficult to see how we're ever going to have any kind of privacy law in the United States," Public Knowledge's Haro ...
- Broadband Carriers Sue To Block Maine Privacy Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Broadband carriers seek to block a Maine privacy bill that requires Internet service providers to obtain consumers' opt-in consent before drawing on their web activity for ad targeting. ...
- More Than 40 Million In U.S. Lack Broadband Access, Report Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 6, 2020
The FCC significantly underestimated the number of people who lack access to broadband service, according to new research by BroadbandNow. ...
- Cox Urges Judge To Nix $1 Billion Piracy Verdict
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 3, 2020
"The evidence shows that Cox had an active and effective policy of discouraging infringement," the company writes in a bid to reverse a decision that holds it responsible for pira ...
- Cox Hit With $1 Billion Verdict Over Users' Piracy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 20, 2019
Sony and other music companies argued that Cox failed to take "reasonable measures" to stem copyright infringement by its subscribers. ...
- Lawmakers Question Google Over Encryption Plans
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 30, 2019
The House Judiciary Committee recently sent a 17-page letter to Google that included questions about the encryption plan known as DNS over HTTPS protocol. ...
- FCC's 'Terrible' Broadband Data Scrutinized By Congress
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 11, 2019
"It's not an exaggeration, in my opinion, to say this FCC's terrible broadband data is its Achilles heel," Rep. Frank Pallone (D-New Jersey) said Wednesday at a hearing. ...
- FCC Plans To Improve Broadband Maps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 12, 2019
The Federal Communications Commission's notoriously problematic reports about broadband availability could soon become more accurate. ...
- NewsGuard Launches In The UK
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, April 25, 2019
NewsGuard has launched in the UK, and "The Guardian" reveals the organisation is in talks with ISPs to automatically alert internet users when they visit a news site deemed ...
- Democrats Question FCC About 'Serious Inaccuracies' In Broadband Report
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 3, 2019
"Given the importance of the report to policies pursued by the Commission, it is critical that the underlying data be accurate and carefully vetted," Rep. Donald McEachin and 11 oth ...
- FTC Unable To Enforce Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 1, 2019
The FTC isn't legally empowered to enforce the former net neutrality rules, which prohibited internet service providers from blocking, throttling or charging higher fees for prioritized delivery, Chairman Joe Simo ...
- Broadband Provider Charter Sued By Record Labels Over Piracy By Users
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 26, 2019
"Charter deliberately turned a blind eye to its subscribers' infringement," a coalition of record labels allege in a new lawsuit. ...
- House Republicans Urge Support For 'Reasonable' Open Internet Laws
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 22, 2019
House Republicans are asking Democrats to support "reasonable" net neutrality bills that would reinstate some -- but not all -- of the Obama-era rules. ...
