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InternetNews December 27, 2010 |
FCC Nears Sign-Off on Comcast-NBC Union Despite objections from advocacy groups, Federal Communications Commission officials say chairman is circulating order of conditional approval for the blockbuster merger of NBC Universal and Comcast. |
InternetNews September 30, 2010 |
House Net Neutrality Compromise Derails After GOP members withdraw support, House committee chairman announces that he is shelving efforts to pass compromise legislation that would have set some rules barring discrimination against content on the Internet. |
InternetNews September 17, 2009 |
Net Neutrality Gets New Support in House FCC oversight hearing opens with a legislative digression and considers the stacked agenda before the agency. |
PHONE+ May 24, 2010 Kelly M. Teal |
Congress: We're Ready, Again, to Update the 1996 Telecom Act For the second time in several years, several federal lawmakers plan to tackle a rewrite of the Communications Act. |
InternetNews August 17, 2010 |
Democrats Scoff at Google-Verizon Compromise Four House Democrats are urging FCC Chief Julius Genachowski to blow off Google and Verizon's net neutrality compromise proposal. |
InternetNews May 14, 2010 |
House Presses for Greater Broadband Funding Subcommittee chairman is anxious to get some funding rerouted to broadband support and to deal with net neutrality issues. |
InternetNews January 19, 2011 |
Critics Pan DoJ, FCC Approval of Comcast-NBC After more than a year in regulatory purgatory, Comcast wins the blessing of the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission to take controlling stake in NBC Universal. |
InternetNews February 4, 2010 |
House Panel Probes Comcast-NBC Merger Executives from cable and television giants seek to assuage lawmakers' concerns about the joint venture's impact on the video market. |
InternetNews April 6, 2006 Roy Mark |
GOP Defeats Dem's Net Neutrality Moves House Republicans Wednesday strengthened net neutrality provisions in their working telecom reform legislation but turned back tougher measures demanded by Democrats. |
InternetNews April 26, 2006 Roy Mark |
GOP Gets It Way on Net Neutrality House Commerce Committee Republicans defeated an effort by Democrats today to strengthen network neutrality provisions in the panel's telecom reform bill. |
InternetNews July 15, 2009 |
FCC Nominees Split on Net Neutrality, ISP Filters Clyburn and Baker face their confirmation hearings and some of the FCC's key issues. |
InternetNews March 30, 2006 Roy Mark |
'Clear And Present Danger' For Telecom Reform Bill Big tech urged Congress today to stop telephone and cable operators from extending their market power over broadband access to broadband content. |
InternetNews December 3, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Consumer Groups Cry Foul on Comcast's NBC Play Cable and media titans agree on terms in blockbuster merger, but will face a long road in securing approval. |
InternetNews September 30, 2010 |
Will FCC Take Up Net Neutrality Charge? The combination of strong lobbying efforts on both sides and a midterm election doomed a House compromise bill on the controversial issue, leaving the FCC perhaps to go it alone. |
InternetNews February 1, 2007 Roy Mark |
Democrats Put FCC Chairman on Defensive Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin defends statements about the AT&T-BellSouth merger and network neutrality principles. |
InternetNews June 22, 2006 Roy Mark |
Senate Panel Delays Net Neutrality Vote Harried by time restraints, contentious Democrats and dozens of proposed amendments, the Senate Commerce Committee took a pass Thursday afternoon on network neutrality. |
InternetNews December 6, 2006 Roy Mark |
Lawmakers Question FCC Recusal Maneuver Key Democratic lawmakers leveled sharp criticism Tuesday at Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin's efforts to break the agency's deadlock over approval of the AT&T-BellSouth merger. |
InternetNews April 14, 2010 |
Comcast Case Looms Large in Senate Hearing Proceeding convened to discuss national broadband plan treads heavily on FCC's authority after court struck down commission's 2008 order in Comcast case. |
InternetNews June 7, 2006 Roy Mark |
Net Neutrality Time on The Floor The moment of truth for network neutrality may arrive as early as tomorrow in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
InternetNews October 12, 2006 Roy Mark |
FCC Delays AT&T-BellSouth Merger Vote AT&T and BellSouth hoped the Federal Communications Commission would approve their merger plans Thursday morning, but late Wednesday night the FCC announced it was delaying the vote until at least Friday. |
InternetNews October 24, 2006 Roy Mark |
'Net Coalition Raps AT&T-BellSouth Merger AT&T's network neutrality concessions for Federal Communications Commission approval of the AT&T-BellSouth merger don't go far enough, a coalition opposing the deal contended today. |
Home Theater December 7, 2009 |
Comcast Captures NBC Universal It's official: Comcast is buying NBC Universal. And already predictions are surfacing as to how this will change the media landscape in online video and other areas. |
InternetNews June 20, 2006 Roy Mark |
Dems Rip Net Neutrality Compromise U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, the leading Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, today blasted Republican compromise language on network neutrality. |
InternetNews February 16, 2011 |
GOP Reps Move to Topple Net Neutrality Rules Republican committee leaders introduce resolution of disapproval that would void FCC's net neutrality order, challenge commissioners on legality of rules. |
The Motley Fool July 15, 2010 Anders Bylund |
Comcast Clears One More Hurdle The Europeans don't mind Comcast owning NBC's networks, but it's a different story back in the U.S. |
InternetNews October 16, 2006 Roy Mark |
AT&T Makes Network Neutrality Concessions In hopes of winning approval to merge with BellSouth, AT&T says it will follow FCC principles for 30 months. |
InternetNews December 29, 2006 Erin Joyce |
AT&T Bends on Net Neutrality AT&T bemoans the political holdup of its merger deal with BellSouth but offers key concessions. |
InternetNews October 13, 2006 Roy Mark |
AT&T-BellSouth Merger Approval Stalled The Federal Communications Commission delayed a vote on the AT&T and BellSouth merger today and rescheduled the issue for Nov. 3. |
InternetNews January 26, 2007 Roy Mark |
Markey And His Net Neut Show Verizon and AT&T dodged a major legislative bullet on mandated network neutrality. |
InternetNews January 29, 2010 |
Groups Continue to Dog Comcast-NBC Merger Comcast has filed the paperwork to get regulatory review underway, drawing howls of protest from critics. |
InternetNews December 13, 2006 Roy Mark |
Citizen Groups Cry Foul Over FCC Vote The move to break deadlock on AT&T-BellSouth merger is called a 'violation of public trust.' |
InternetNews December 23, 2010 |
Net Neutrality 2010: How Did We Get Here? The year ends with the Federal Communications Commission putting the first net neutrality rules on the books, and what a long, winding path it took to get there. |
InternetNews May 11, 2010 |
Bill Would Stymie FCC's Net Neutrality Plans Florida's Cliff Stearns introduced a bill that would force the Internet service sector to prove there was a market failure before the FCC could enact any form of regulation. |
InternetNews March 9, 2011 |
House Subpanel Moves to Block Net Neutrality After a pair of hearings highlighting the partisan gulf on the issue of Internet regulation, Republican subcommittee members send a resolution of disapproval on to full committee. |
The Motley Fool September 1, 2010 David Lee Smith |
Watch This Media Merger With a Close Eye The process hasn't been smooth sailing for Comcast/NBC Universal, but watch it carefully. |
InternetNews October 18, 2006 Roy Mark |
Unexpected Face Time for Network Neutrality Throughout the U.S. House and Senate debates over network neutrality, Republicans steadfastly insist no federal law is needed prohibiting discrimination in the handling of Internet traffic. |
InternetNews November 10, 2006 Roy Mark |
Will Dems Change Tech Policy? One-party rule in Washington ends next year when the 110th Congress convenes with Democrats taking over the House and the Senate. What does this mean for technology policy? |
InternetNews April 25, 2006 Roy Mark |
House Panel to Vote on Network Neutrality One committee prepares to vote on a telecom reform bill that Democrats contend lacks effective network neutrality protections, another panel opens hearings on the antitrust implications of just such a scenario. |
InternetNews March 15, 2007 Roy Mark |
House Democrats Blast FCC Policies Democrats found fault with the FCC's handling of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, broadband penetration rates, the digital television transition, cable franchise rules and lack of interoperability among first responders. |
InternetNews March 12, 2008 |
Lawmaker May Use Antitrust For Net Neutrality Rep. Conyers is telling people he may use antitrust laws to put net neutrality rules on the books. |
InternetNews June 27, 2006 Roy Mark |
Net Neutrality Faces Senate Panel Vote The Senate Commerce Committee pushes vote on network traffic management rules to Wednesday morning. |
InternetNews December 8, 2006 Roy Mark |
Dumpster Ethics Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin played his hole card the other day to break the FCC's deadlock over approving the AT&T-BellSouth merger that would create the world's largest telecommunications company. |
InternetNews April 26, 2006 Roy Mark |
Net Neutrality Debate Heats Up Looking at possible antitrust implications of having telecoms and cable companies controlling 99 percent of U.S. broadband connections, a special task force of the House Judiciary Committee took up network neutrality. |
InternetNews October 10, 2006 |
Net Neutrality Back on FCC's Agenda Network neutrality proponents hope agency will make non-discriminatory handling of broadband traffic part of the AT&T/BellSouth deal. |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2009 David Lee Smith |
The Comcast-NBC Universal Merger Could Take Eons Should you play the Comcast merger through the cable company? |
InternetNews November 3, 2006 Roy Mark |
Net Neut. Delays AT&T-BellSouth Vote Again FCC remains deadlocked over attaching additional network neutrality conditions to deal. |
InternetNews June 9, 2006 Roy Mark |
House K.O.'s Net Neutrality Legislative language to make the controversial concept of network neutrality the law of the land failed in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
InternetNews October 15, 2009 |
Net Neutrality in GOP Crosshairs Eighteen Senate Republicans call on the FCC chairman to rethink the issue. |
InternetNews January 22, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Broadband Stimulus Nears House Vote A bill allocating billions to improve Net access may see action as early as next week, after having received approval from a House committee. |
InternetNews January 6, 2010 |
DoJ to Probe Comcast/NBC Deal Antitrust review to explore anticompetitive concerns, settles jurisdictional question. |