Neowin News Feed for: Net neutrality

A slip of the tongue gives away CETA's influences from ACTA

Paul Ferson — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:40:19 +0100

ACTA and the whole copyright concern around it, was thought to have been laid to rest. It hasn't been: A European Commission negotiator managed to let slip CETA copies from ACTA. Read more...

Iran removes block on Gmail again after a week

Paul Ferson — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:04:05 +0100

The Iranian government has removed the block on Gmail again after only a week, with ministers in parliament showing their dissent against the sudden loss of one of the most popular email services. Read more...

Verizon: it's our Constitutional right to make your Internet suck

Tyler Holman — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:02:02 +0100

In a last ditch effort to control their networks with an iron fist, Verizon is falling back to the US Court of Appeals, claiming that net neutrality violates their First Amendment rights. Read more...

European mobile operator to charge extra for VoIP

Andy Weir — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:21:10 +0100

With a flick of its middle finger to the concept of net neutrality, one of Europe's largest mobile network operators will shortly beginning charging its customers to use VoIP services. Read more...

US Senate blocks effort to overturn net neutrality rules

John Callaham — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:07:37 +0000

The US Senate voted today to block an effort by one of their own to overturn the net neutrality rules that were approved by the FCC late in December 2010; the rules go into effect November 20. Read more...

China wants Internet police

Tyler Holman — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:56:23 +0000

We all know that China controls their internet with an iron fist. But did you know that they want the UN to enforce their censorship policies? And if they don't, China isn't afraid to do it themselves Read more...

Verizon files again to stop FCC's net neutrality rules

John Callaham — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:18:38 +0100

Verizon has once again filed an appeal to the Federal Communications Commission as they try to block the FCC's recently approved net neutrality law from going into effect. Read more...

Net neutrality supporters file lawsuit against net neutrality rules

James Woodfin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:27:01 +0100

Here's a twist for you: Net neutrality supporters file a lawsuit protesting net neutrality. Apparently, they beat Verizon and Metro PCS to the punch. Read more...

Net neutrality rules to start in US on November 20

John Callaham — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:37:12 +0100

The Federal Communications Commission's new net neutrality rules will finally go into effect on November 20, but the rules are expected to be disputed by wireless and ISP companies in court. Read more...

FCC one step closer to finalizing net neutrality rules

John Callaham — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:14:07 +0100

The concept of net neutrality for Internet service providers got one step closer to becoming the law of the land this week. According to a post on The Hill web site the Federal Communications Commission... Read more...

Google releases statistics of government requests

Paul Ferson — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:17:57 +0100

Ever wondered how regularly Google is requested to remove or show content? In another move intended to highlight the company's transparency, the search giant released statistics on Monday, June 27th. The statistics displayed are broken... Read more...

Next gen net neutrality in doubt as O2 lays 4G framework

Ross Dundas — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:41:23 +0000

One of the big issues of late has been that of net neutrality; the fundamental principle that all internet traffic is equal regardless of the source of that traffic. Current 3G wireless providers such as... Read more...

PC Pro becomes prophet of doom: Its the end of the net as we know it

Ross Dundas — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:21:05 +0000

Coming from the prophet of doom department (we have a lot of funky departments over-seen by our mighty overlord Mr. Parker here at Neowin :-) ) comes this rather negative article from PC Pro’s Barry... Read more...

BT: Content Connect "will not create a two-tier internet"

Mike Brown — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:01:13 +0000

In a statement released earlier today, BT denied claims that its upcoming Content Connect service contradicts its position of supporting net neutrality. Envisioned as an opportunity for content providers to strike up deals with ISPs... Read more...

FCC rules mobile broadband doesn't require net neutrality

Brian Blasius — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:03:17 +0000

Net neutrality, the idea that the Internet should be free of restrictions placed by governments and ISP’s, has been in the news for quite some time now. The Guardian reports that the US Federal Communications... Read more...

Google-Verizon: It's all about the Money

Brian Donohue — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:25:28 +0100

When does a compromise stop being a compromise and become an all-out policy reversal? In 2007 the iPhone was fresh and set to dominate the nonexistent "lifephone" market by single handedly creating the category. On... Read more...

Google and Verizon issue joint Net Neutrality legislative guidelines

Tzvi Friedman — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:38:57 +0100

In a joint blog post on the Google Public Policy Blog today, Google and Verizon laid out a broad proposal to American legislation roadmapping their ideas for an open Internet. Titled “A Joint policy proposal... Read more...

Google and Verizon deny net neutrality violations

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:56:41 +0100

Yesterday, The New York Times posted an article that revealed a deal between Verizon and Google that would go against the tenets of net neutrality. The deal would set up Verizon to deliver content faster... Read more...

Net neutrality suffers another blow as court rules in favor of Comcast

giga — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:18:52 +0100

A US federal court of appeals today struck down a 2008 FCC sanction against Comcast for blocking P2P channels from its customers. The overruling stated that the Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority... Read more...