dslreports.com - 1/20/2009
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While a lot was made of the FCC's investigation and Comcast's shift to a "protocol agnostic" network management system, the FCC order didn't actually punish Comcast, came with no fine, offered no new guidelines, didn't request they do anything they didn't plan to do voluntarily, and might not ...
avc.com - 1/13/2009
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Like I do every morning, I logged into
Techmeme to find this news: That's an image, sorry...
about that, here's the link to the WSJ story , but I wanted you all to see how I heard the news. This is so great on so many levels. Let's start with ...
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This News Made Me Smile A Mile Wide
gigaom.com - 1/13/2009
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President-elect Obama will name Julius Genachowski as the
new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, the Wall...
Street Journal said today , adding weight to similar reports in the Washington Post from a few weeks ago . Aside from ...
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What the New FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Must Do ...
dslreports.com - 1/22/2009
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Comcast insiders have informed Broadband Reports that the
cable giant will soon be launching an online backup...
and storage service called Comcast Secure Backup and Share, for which customers can pay a monthly or yearly fee. The plan is to offer ...
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Comcast To Launch Online Backup Service - In 10, 50, or ...
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FCC Doesn’t Like Comcast’s New Treatment of VoIP Karl Bode, DSLreports ...
Comcast caught giving its own VoIP service network priority, downgrading others
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... The problem now is that while Vonage and all the other VoIP programs can have their bandwidth limited by Comcast's throttling policies, Comcast's own VoIP service is treated differently and always routed through its network at full speed. This effectively makes it impossible for the other companies to compete, as they'll always face the risk of degraded and dropped calls while Comcast can sell its voice service to its subscribers as the one reliable solution. ...
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eweek.com 1/20/2009 — Federal Communications Commission raises possibility of further network neutrality violations by Comcast. The agency is investigating concerns that Comcast's new network management practices degrade the sound quality of VOIP services like Vonage and ...
Copps: FCC needs fifth net neutrality principle
arstechnica.com 4/6/2009 —
Interim Federal Communications Commission chair Michael Copps has just called for a fifth Internet non-discrimination principle that would be added to the existing four. He told a Friday morning breakfast audience at the National Cable ...
FCC wants to know if Comcast is interfering with VoIP
arstechnica.com 1/20/2009 — It doesn't look like the FCC is letting up on Comcast's network management practices. The latest: a letter with sharp questions about whether its traffic management practices monkey with competitors' VoIP services while leaving Comcast Digital Voice ...
FCC Asks if Comcast Slows Rivals’ VoIP Traffic [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 1/21/2009 — Looks like Comcast’s new network management plan is drawing the ire of competing Voice over IP providers and the scrutiny of federal regulators. The plan, which is detailed here , basically slows bandwidth hogs broadband speeds during times of ...
FCC enforcing imaginary laws in P2P ruling, says Comcast
arstechnica.com 8/17/2009 —
Almost a year ago, Comcast pledged that it would sue the Federal Communications Commission over its Order sanctioning the cable ISP for peer-to-peer throttling. Now, the company has filed its case with the United ...
FCC Fires Back at Comcast in Net Neutrality Legal Battle [GigaOM]
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More FCC Cable-Related Regulatory Shenanigans
techliberation.com 11/29/2008 — I need not remind anyone here about FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s ongoing “ war on cable .” Even if you hate the cable industry or capitalism in general, there’s just no way I can see how anyone who believes in the rule of law ...
Comcast Wins Appeal of FCC’s Cable Market-Share Limit (Update4)
bloomberg.com 8/28/2009 — Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Comcast Corp. , the biggest U.S. cable-television provider, won a legal victory as a court threw out a rule limiting cable companies to 30 percent of the market. The Federal Communications Commission failed to fully consider ...
This is the way the Internet ends: not with a bang, but DPI
arstechnica.com 3/21/2009 —
Does deep packet inspection mean the end of the Internet?
Deep packet inspection (DPI) gear has always been marketed to ISPs as a way to earn more money by scanning Internet traffic and charging more for various services. Want to game ...
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