Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 7, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Efforts by public interest groups to get a legal challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s new “net neutrality” rules heard somewhere other than the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit belly-flopped Thursday when the D.C. Court won the case in a random lottery.
Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 29, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
A fresh legal salvo was fired Wednesday over recently published federal “net neutrality” rules restricting Internet providers from blocking or slowing traffic.
Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 4, 2011 at 2:49 pm PT
A federal appeals court tossed out lawsuits filed by two phone companies challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s new “net neutrality” rules, saying that the suits were premature.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 14, 2011 at 10:06 am PT
One of these speakers is not like the others, one of these speakers just doesn’t belong…but the fourth-day hangover crowd at SXSW Interactive came out in force to see longtime media executive Barry Diller speak at the Austin Convention Center this morning.
Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 17, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
In a contentious hearing, House Republicans attacked new regulations for broadband Internet lines and criticized the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission for adopting them.
Republicans are targeting the “net neutrality” rules, which would bar Internet providers from blocking or slowing Internet traffic and services, as well as new regulations in such areas as health care and the environment, as unnecessary and overly burdensome on industry.
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Voices in News on January 20, 2011 at 3:43 pm PT
Verizon, one of
the myriad and diverse parties unhappy with
the FCC’s latest net neutrality rules, took its beef to court today,
filing a challenge to the agency’s authority in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “We are deeply concerned by the FCC’s assertion of broad authority for sweeping new regulation of broadband networks and the Internet itself. We believe this assertion of authority goes well beyond any authority provided by Congress, and creates uncertainty for the communications industry, innovators, investors and consumers,” said Michael E. Glover, senior VP and deputy general counsel, in a statement.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 6, 2011 at 1:03 pm PT
Verizon showed off 10 devices coming in the first half of the year and said it will cover another 140 cities with the high-speed network by year’s end.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 23, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT
It’s now been two days since the Federal Communications Commission voted to pass its controversial network neutrality rules, and the consensus is clear–no one is terribly happy. Now we have a full text of the actual rules–the 194-page document that lawyers, lawmakers and lobbyists will be combing through in the coming weeks and months.
