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Surge in streaming media traffic raises the old concern – who should pay?
SK vs Netflix has drawn attention to the amount of data traffic overtaking networks, and that some rules are outdated for streaming media. Read more…
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South Korea is leading – and disrupting – the emerging 5G world
South Korea prides itself on leading in 5G and a host of other areas. 5G speeds in South Korea are 10 times as fast as in other countries. Read more…
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Pressure on Biden to fill FCC seat and reboot net neutrality
More than 50 US groups urged President Joe Biden to fill open FCC seat in order to begin the process of reinstating net neutrality rules Read more…
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Telcos urge Indian govt to defer net neutrality and regulate OTT players
Indian telecom operators have urged the government to bring OTT players under some form of licensing regime to establish level playing field. Read more…
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FCC Chairman stands by repeal of landmark net neutrality rules
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai said he stands by the agency’s repeal of landmark net neutrality rules. Read more…
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Trade groups challenge repeal of net neutrality rulings
Trade groups representing major tech have asked a US appeals court to reconsider its ruling that largely upheld the 2017 repeal of net neutrality rules. Read more…
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The US net neutrality landscape is now fragmented and weird
A US court says states can write their own net neutrality rules. Strangely the legal reasoning has little to do with net neutrality. Or how the internet works. Read more…
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Why EU operators keep losing the battle against net neutrality
Policymakers promised that the EU’s net neutrality law would bring more innovation and protect end user rights, but it appears that it is doing the opposite. Read more…
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Reddit and Telegram being blocked by ISPs in India
Websites like Reddit and Telegram are being blocked in India by internet service providers, throwing into question the enforcement of net neutrality rules. Read more…
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No, the Supreme Court did not end the net neutrality debate
ITEM: On Monday, the US Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) declined to hear a case brought by telecoms companies to reverse earlier rulings by lower courts that the 2015 Obama-era net neutrality rules were Read more…
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Can Tim Berners-Lee’s Contract save the Web from itself?
ITEM: At the Web Summit in Lisbon, Tim Berners-Lee revealed his plan to create a “Contract for the Web” under which all signatories – which would include governments, companies and individuals – would pledge to Read more…
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Tim Berners-Lee seeks to fix the web with new ‘contract’
LONDON (Reuters) – Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has launched a campaign to persuade governments, companies and individuals to sign a “Contract for the Web” set of principles designed to defend a Read more…
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California dreaming – 50 shades of net neutrality
Ever since the FCC scrapped Obama-era net neutrality policies, pro-neutrality advocates have been looking for ways to unscrap them. The state of California has just attempted to do that with a new law signed by Read more…
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Trump admin and California clash over localized net neutrality
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Justice Department has filed suit after California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation to restore open internet protections known as net neutrality in the state after the Trump administration repealed the Read more…
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House Republican spotted supporting return of net neutrality
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican in the US House of Representatives said on Tuesday he will back an uphill battle to try to force a vote to restore net neutrality rules that were overturned by Read more…
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The FCC has killed off net neutrality – fact or fiction?
Journalists around the world read stories from the American media on net neutrality and internet regulation. Some copy-paste the stories into Google Translate to make an article for their local language publication. Some journalists consider Read more…
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US Senate votes to keep net neutrality, but don’t hold your breath
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Senate voted on Wednesday in favor of keeping open-internet rules in a bid to overturn the Federal Communications Commission decision to repeal net neutrality rules, but the measure is unlikely Read more…
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FCC sets June 11 as the official net neutrality kill date
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Landmark US net neutrality rules will expire on June 11, and new regulations handing providers broad new power over how consumers can access the internet will take effect, the Federal Communications Commission Read more…
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Sponsored data plans are not zero rating – or are they?
ITEM: Sponsored data plans can still be a win-win plan for operators, advertisers and customers, says a new report from Strategy Analytics – they just need to think of a way to actually make it Read more…
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Net neutrality was a load of gumf – good riddance to it!
If it wasn’t clear before, it should now be very clear that net neutrality was nothing but a political ploy to get some control over something that has worked perfectly for decades unregulated and out Read more…