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EU lawmakers vote to introduce net neutrality
News The European Parliament has voted through a massive tranche of reforms for the European telecommunications sector, including a significant net-neutrality amendment. On the net-neutrality issue, the Commission said in its statement that national...
[May 6, 2009, 17:10]
Proof that net neutrality is worth worrying about
Blog For those who've taken the line that the net neutrality debate is a storm in a teacup and nothing to worry about, comes the news that top Canadian telco Rogers has actually started to degrade the user experience for those sending and receiving...
[April 10, 2007, 12:03]
Test your ISP's net neutrality!
Blog The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a tool, dubbed 'Switzerland' (net neutrality - geddit? It's up to concerned Internet users to investigate possible network neutrality violations, and EFF's Switzerland software is designed to...
[August 5, 2008, 17:31]
BCS calls for UK net neutrality debate
News The time has come for the UK to join the growing debate surrounding network neutrality, the president of the British Computer Society has told ZDNet.co.uk. Professor Nigel Shadbolt said on Friday that, because so much of the internet's content is...
[September 17, 2007, 16:39]
EU consumer groups, ISPs plead for net neutrality
News It is designed to ensure net neutrality in Europe, as it would guarantee equal access to the internet for all users. European consumer groups and ISPs are pressing EU politicians to pass legislation to guarantee users cannot be thrown off the...
[October 20, 2009, 14:16]
Dell aims for carbon neutrality
News Nevertheless, its chief executive, Michael Dell, on Wednesday claimed the company is heading for carbon neutrality. Dell claimed on Wednesday to be the first of the large IT suppliers to commit to a carbon-neutral strategy for all of its operations...
[September 27, 2007, 17:29]
US regulator proposes new net neutrality rules
News But the fight to create new laws or regulation to protect net neutrality languished after the FCC publicly admonished Comcast for violating its open-internet principles. The debate over so-called net neutrality began heating up about three years...
[September 22, 2009, 9:05]
Nuts and Bolts of Network Neutrality
White Papers Network neutrality is a vexing issue. Proponents of neutrality regulation argue that the free, innovative Internet of today is threatened and government action is needed to protect it. One of the reasons the network neutrality debate is so murky is...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
Network Neutrality and Foreclosing Market Exchange: A Transaction Cost Analysis
White Papers This paper analyzes the effects of "Network neutrality" proposals that seek to mandate an inflexible set of rules that would foreclose or severely limit many market transactions. Moreover, rules that prohibit the market from contracting efficiently...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
ISPs and govt to talk net neutrality
Blog One of the most interesting aspects of this week's massive shakeup of EU telecoms rules was to do with net neutrality. To rather lazily lift a paragraph from the story we did on this on Wednesday: The reform will guarantee that your internet...
[November 16, 2007, 8:50]
This is what happens without net neutrality
Blog The point is, this is what happens when you don't have net neutrality legislation. Players of the online game EVE who also happen to be Tiscali subscribers have just received a rather nasty surprise. According to the game's forums (and someone here...
[October 5, 2007, 12:35]
AT&T accuses Google of hypocrisy on net neutrality
News AT&T has accused Google of being a hypocrite when it comes to net neutrality because it blocks certain phone calls on its Google Voice service. The carrier has written a letter to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) claiming Google has...
[September 28, 2009, 9:38]
House rejects net neutrality rules
News The US House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it.
[June 12, 2006, 10:05]
US: Net-neutrality regulations unnecessary
News The Bush administration believes that government regulators should be "highly sceptical" of net-neutrality regulations and instead rely on competition to protect consumers. The comments came in a public filing that the US Department of Justice sent...
[September 7, 2007, 11:36]
UK regulators 'relaxed' on net neutrality
News There is currently no need to introduce net neutrality legislation in the UK, according to both Ofcom and the DTI. The net neutrality debate has been particularly heated in the United States — where there is much less competition between ISPs than...
[March 20, 2007, 16:42]
Net neutrality fight returns to Senate
News The political tussle over net neutrality shifted back to the Senate's turf on Tuesday, taking centre stage at the last public hearing before a mammoth communications bill goes up for a preliminary vote.
[June 14, 2006, 10:40]
Cisco, Qualcomm come out against net neutrality
News Some of the largest hardware makers in the world, including 3M, Cisco, Corning and Qualcomm, sent an open letter to Congress on Wednesday firmly opposing new laws mandating net neutrality - the concept that broadband providers must never favour...
[May 18, 2006, 10:05]
BBC 'committed' to iPlayer platform neutrality
News We're absolutely clear that the BBC Trust themselves are committed to platform neutrality. We asked [the Trust] to explain how platform neutrality was going to be achieved given that the existing iPlayer is completely locked into single provider's...
[July 26, 2007, 9:13]
Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
News Speaking at the World Wide Web conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning, Berners-Lee gave his views on the growing battle over Net neutrality. Net neutrality is the concept that all Internet content should be treated equally by broadband...
[May 23, 2006, 12:10]
Microsoft on Trial: Intuit's CEO calls for 'OS neutrality'
News Calling for the government to impose "operating system neutrality" to ensure fair and free industry competition, Intuit Inc.s top executive lambasted Microsoft Corp.for its business practices. With the growth of the Internet, I believe it is now...
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