Broadband Internet Fairness Act
New York Congressman, Eric Massa has introduced a bill called the “Broadband Internet Fairness Act“. In short, the Congressman was acting in response to Time Warner Cable and their attempts to experiment in certain markets with tiered broadband bandwidth plans. Time Warner found in this experiment that putting caps on bandwidth availability is much [...]
Broadband Providers Resist Net Neutrality
The “it’s the internet, stupid” campaign wants the FCC to implement the “non-discrimination and network interconnection obligation” that the group first outlined in 2005 to be part of The National Broadband Plan. These guidelines state that network must allow access to any lawful content, to run any legal web applications and to connect to the [...]
Civil Rights Groups Create Broadband Opportunities Coalition
Nine leading Civil Rights Groups have banded together to create the Broadband Opportunities Coalition. These groups include but are not limited to, The Asian American Justice Center, National Association for the advancement of Colored People, National Urban League. These groups and five others have created a unified front with plans to encourage the two governing [...]
