- 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 found. ...
- 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 Court ...
- 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.S. ...
- 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 Harold ...
- 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 piracy ...
- 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 to ...
- 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 other ...
- 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 Simons ...
- 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. ...
- T-Mobile/Sprint Would Compete With Cable ISPs If Merger OKed
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, September 21, 2018
That plan might make the idea of the merger more attractive to regulators. ...
- Customer Experience 'Stagnates,' Differentiation 'Evaporates'
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Friday, July 6, 2018
Overall, consumer perceptions of their customer experience with major brands is relatively stable, according to results of the 2018 edition of an annual study by Forrester Analytics. While overall customer ...
- Senate Votes To Reinstate Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 17, 2018
Three Republicans voted in favor of restoring rules that prohibit Internet service providers from blocking or throttling traffic and from charging higher fees for prioritized delivery. ...
- What's Behind The Falling Email Read Rate?
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Open rates are down and not-spam rates are up. Return Path's Tom Sather believes the ISPs may be to blame -- and offers tips on how to handle it. ...
- Microsoft Creates Coalition To Get Rural America Searching Online
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 4, 2018
Microsoft has announced it will form a coalition focused on convincing the Federal Communications Commission to eliminate regulatory hurdles preventing widespread rural broadband deployment. ...
- Google Fiber Dropping TV Package In New Markets
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Sunday, October 8, 2017
When Google Fiber expands to new markets -- including Louisville, Ky. and San Antonio, Texas -- it will not include a previously offered TV package and DVR. “Google frames this ...
- Net Neutrality Reversal Will Harm Free Speech, International Groups Argue
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Reversing the net neutrality rules will allow broadband providers to "rip the soul out of the Internet," a broad consortium of international groups says in a new letter to Federal ...
- FCC Lacks Basis To Roll Back Net Neutrality Rules, Silicon Valley Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 30, 2017
"The record provides no basis for the Commission to reverse course from its 2015 Order," the Internet Association writes in comments filed Wednesday with the FCC. ...
- Small Broadband Providers Urge FCC To Preserve Net Neutrality
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 29, 2017
"We have encountered no new additional barriers to investment or deployment," more than 40 ISPs tell regulators. ...
- FCC Moves Forward With Plan To Gut Net Neutrality Rules
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 18, 2017
The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 today to move forward with Chairman Ajit Pai's proposal to repeal key portions of the net neutrality rules. ...
- Broadband Providers Cheer Proposed Net Neutrality Reversal
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 26, 2017
The lobbying group USTelecom praised FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to roll back net neutrality, arguing that the move will boost innovation and investment. ...
