- Biden Urges FCC To Restore Net Neutrality, FTC To Regulate 'Surveillance Practices'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 9, 2021
President Joe Biden on Friday signed a broad executive order that includes provisions encouraging the FCC to restore the former net neutrality rules, and the FTC to issue new regulatio ...
- vMVPDs Reached 16% Of U.S. Pay-TV Subs In 2020, As Traditional Pay-TV Subs Continued To Plummet
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, July 9, 2021
vMVPDs were the only pay-TV segment to see growth during the pandemic, spurred by households' adoption of standalone broadband services. ...
- FCC's Broadband Defiinition Too Slow, Government Report Suggests
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 8, 2021
"FCC's minimum speed benchmark of 25/3 Mbps is likely not fast enough to meet the needs of many small businesses, particularly with regard to upload speeds." the U.S. Government Accountabili ...
- New York Wants Appellate Court To Reinstate Mandatory $15 Monthly Broadband Service
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 6, 2021
New York State Attorney General Letitia James will ask a federal appellate court to allow the state to enforce a new law requiring broadband providers to offer $15-a-month service ...
- Broadband Providers Battling Net Neutrality Point To Victory In New York
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 21, 2021
A judge's injunction blocking New York's mandate for $15-a-month broadband supports the case against California's net neutrality law, broadband providers argue. ...
- Boost Mobile Should Stop Boasting Of 'Unlimited' Data, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 18, 2021
"Boost Mobile has failed to provide proper support for the use of the 'unlimited data' claim as reasonable consumers understand that term," the BBB National Programs' National Advertising Review Boa ...
- Charter Should Revise Ads Attacking AT&T, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Charter should revise ads boasting that its internet service offers the fastest downloads and ads implying that AT&T doesn't have speeds fast enough to stream online exercise classes, a self-regulato ...
- Biden Urged To Nominate Tie-Breaking Democrat To FCC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 14, 2021
The ACLU, Mozilla and other groups say the FCC "remains below full capacity, which is incompatible with the goal of delivering open, affordable and reliable high-speed broadband to every home ...
- Madison Avenue's New Impressionistic Movement
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, June 7, 2021
After a brief flirtation with higher-order metrics, some major media are pushing to revert their advertising currencies to impressions-based measurement, albeit for different reasons. ...
- American Household Data Usage Begins To Normalize, Expands At Historic Rates
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, June 1, 2021
In another sign that American media consumption is returning to more normalized patterns, the rate of broadband data consumption for the average American household appears to have returned to i ...
- FTC And States Sue Frontier Over Internet Speed Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Frontier Communications duped subscribers by delivering internet service at lower-than-advertised speeds, the FTC and six states alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. ...
- Verizon Offers Sling TV Deal To Broadband, Wireless Customers
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, May 20, 2021
The deal is the latest in a series of partnerships intended to help bolster Fios TV, which lost 82,000 subscribers in this year's first quarter alone, reducing its total ...
- Washington Lifts Curbs On City-Owned Broadband Networks
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 14, 2021
"We have ended all restrictions on public broadband in Washington state," Rep. Drew Hansen, sponsor of the bill, tweeted. ...
- Mozilla, Advocates, And Attorneys General Defend California's Net Neutrality Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 12, 2021
"Absent effective neutrality rules, ISPs can -- and do -- act as self-interested gatekeepers," digital rights organizations tell a federal appellate court. ...
- Broadband Industry Financed Phony Comments Against Net Neutrality
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 6, 2021
"In April 2017, the country's largest broadband companies banded together to fund a campaign to generate millions of comments for the FCC's 2017 net neutrality rulemaking proceeding," a new repo ...
- Net Neutrality 'Vital' To Protect The Public, California Tells Appeals Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 5, 2021
California is urging a federal appeals court to leave in place a state net neutrality law that broadly prohibits broadband carriers from blocking or throttling traffic and from charging high ...
- Broadband Industry Challenges NY Law Requiring $15 Monthly Service
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 4, 2021
"In short, New York has overstepped its regulatory authority," broadband organizations allege in a lawsuit seeking to invalidate a state law requiring $15 monthly service for some low-income
residents. ...
- Spectrum Mobile Should Stop Boasting Of 'Fastest Overall Speed,' Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Conclusion: Speed advantage comes "only when the consumer is located in certain markets or connected to Spectrum WiFi." ...
- FCC Should Avoid California-Style Net Neutrality Rules, House Republicans Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 19, 2021
"We urge you not to impose stringent net neutrality regulations that may result in Americans losing their internet services," 26 Republican lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sa ...
- Business Groups, TechFreedom Urge Court To Nix California Net Neutrality Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 13, 2021
"The very concept of state regulation of data use is problematic," the free-market group TechFreedom writes. "Unless states apply the same rules to data that passes through their borders ...
- Rising D2C Video Businesses To Push Faster Broadband Subscriptions
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, April 12, 2021
UBS estimates total cable and telco-based services will grow 3.6% in 2021. ...
- Broadband Industry Urges Appeals Court To Block California Net Neutrality Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Lobbying groups for the cable and telecom industry say broadband is an interstate service, not subject to regulation by individual states. ...
- Biden Unveils Plan To Expand Broadband, Lift Restrictions On Municipal Networks
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 31, 2021
President Joe Biden has unveiled an infrastructure plan that includes $100 billion to expand broadband throughout the country. ...
- Tech Companies Press FCC To Restore Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 19, 2021
"Net neutrality simply preserves the environment that has allowed the internet to become an engine for economic growth," Mozilla, Vimeo, Reddit and other tech companies said in a letter ...
- AT&T To End 'Data Free TV'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 17, 2021
AT&T said it will discontinue its controversial "Data Free TV" program, which exempted some video streams, including still-in-growth-mode HBO Max, from subscribers' data caps, as a result of California's n ...
- Broadband Carriers Should Seek Permission Before Harnessing Web-Browsing Data For Ads, Groups Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 10, 2021
"We believe that each and every customer paying for your internet service has the right to determine how their personal data will be used, on an opt-in basis," Mozilla, t ...
- T-Mobile To Target Ads Based On Subscribers' Web Browsing, App Use
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 9, 2021
The company quietly disclosed its plans in a Feb. 23 update to its privacy policy, but change largely went unnoticed until this week. ...
- Bill Would Require Broadband Carriers To Disclose Prices, Data Limits, Speeds
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 5, 2021
"The Broadband Consumer Transparency Act would resurrect an Obama-era proposal that ISPs make key disclosures to consumers in a standardized form, comparable to the "nutrition label" that appears on packag ...
- FCC Should Change Broadband Definition To 100 Mbps, Lawmakers Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 4, 2021
"We must learn from our experience during the pandemic and raise federal standards for new broadband service to require low latency, high reliability, and speeds that meet our expected 21 ...
- What Does DirecTV Turn Into Now?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Some analysts believe rural areas could be a possible improving ground for DirecTV. ...
