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Google’s $300 Million Funded ‘FASTER’ Internet Cable between US and Japan Goes Live
June 30, 2016
Google partnered with Global Transit, China Telecom Global, Singtel, China Mobile International, and KDDI to make the highest capacity underwater fiber optic cable ever built, capable of delivering 60 Terabits per second of bandwidth across the Pacific.
FCC Reportedly Blocking Comcast’s Bid To Take Over Time Warner Cable
April 23, 2015
FCC staffers are not convinced the merger is in the public interest, and they are recommending that the case be heard by an administrative law judge.
FCC Votes to Protect the Internet with Title II Regulation
February 26, 2015
Title II is the FCC's strongest tool for enforcing open internet rules - A huge win for net neutrality.
FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Hints Net Neutrality Rules Will Treat Broadband as a Utility
January 9, 2015
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler signaled that he will move to protect Net Neutrality by reclassifying Internet-access service under Title II of the Communications Act.
Net Neutrality - What YOU Need TO DO, and NOW!
June 6, 2014
Cable companies are trying to create an unequal playing field for internet speeds, but they're doing it so 'boringly' that most news outlets aren't covering it - John Oliver and SC24/7 explain the controversy (and cover it!).
Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination
June 3, 2014
The goal of this paper was to make an initial case for a broadband discrimination regime as an alternative to the structural remedy of open access to achieve the goal of network neutrality.