When the FCC kicked-off its net neutrality proceeding in 2009, it labeled the proceeding “Preserving the Open Internet.” But to “preserve” means to “make lasting” or “maintain” rather than “change,” and that’s what many public interest advocates really want to do – change the way the Internet currently operates. For them at least, renaming “change” as “preservation” is classic doublespeak designed to disguise the real intent of net neutrality regulation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Google’s Win-Win-Win Net Neutrality Agreement with Verizon
It’s not often that a company wins the triple-crown like Google did in its recent “agreement” with Verizon regarding net neutrality. But, then again, it’s not often that the FCC is betting so publicly for a particular company’s horse as the FCC has been with Google and net neutrality. So what are the three wins for Google? Read the rest of this entry »
The FCC Has Never Applied Title II to Wireless Broadband Internet Access
Hank Hultquist at AT&T and Harold Feld at Public Knowledge recently had an exchange debating the application of Title II to wireline Internet access service providers. But this discussion, while interesting from a wireline perspective, didn’t shed any light on the historical application of Title II to wireless broadband access – probably because Title II has never applied to wireless broadband Internet access – either the service itself or the underlying transport. Read the rest of this entry »
Comcast v. FCC and the net neutrality NPRM
“Where are you going?” Aunt Beru, Star Wars (1977).
I wrote in an earlier post that the FCC lacked jurisdiction to enact its proposed net neutrality rules as written. Today the D.C. Circuit issued an opinion holding that the FCC failed to justify ancillary jurisdiction “over Comcast’s network management practices.” (Comcast v. FCC, No. 08-1291 at 3 (D.C. Cir. Apr. 6, 2010).) In this post, I explain what the court did and what options remain open to the FCC in its net neutrality proceeding. Read the rest of this entry »
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Applications and Devices Dominate the S&P 500
I’ve previously written about the limited scope of the FCC’s net neutrality proposals – i.e., that they don’t apply to application or device providers. An interesting angle on this issue is the relative market caps of the largest applications and device providers compared to broadband access service providers. Read the rest of this entry »
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