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When William J. Santoro was turned away from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing at Harvard Law School on Monday, he was surprised to learn that a number of seats in the room had been filled by people paid by the Comcast Corporation...
...government commissioners were in town to hear experts and representatives of cable companies like Comcast discuss the role that corporations should be allowed to have in regulating consumers’ Internet...
...enforceable, non-discrimination principle by the FCC,” Copps said.The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Law School is one of the sponsors of a petition that encourages the FCC to take a strong stance against Internet providers that discriminate by content. “Comcast and its spokespersons suggested that its practice of degrading an application’s performance—using technology similar to censorship systems to the Chinese government—somehow constitutes ‘reasonable network management,’” the authors of the petition wrote...
...make the NFL Network part of the basic programming tier. That would in turn prompt the cable companies to raise rates by at least as much. The cable guys have refused that price, leaving the NFL Network either without a channel or relegated to the sports tier by Comcast for a monthly fee, potentially depriving the league of hundreds of millions in revenue. "The only channel devoted 24/7 to America's favorite sport is not programming that should be relegated to a poorly promoted, pay-extra sports tier that takes advantage of our fans' passion for the NFL," huffed Steve...
...also carry voice traffic, and with time--and the right compression technology--they will be able to carry video too. Electric companies could be the next contender in an extended battle to control not just high-speed surfing but all forms of digital communication and entertainment for the home. Comcast, Cablevision and others already offer multiple services. Idacomm says it plans to offer Internet phone service and video-on-demand to BPL users right off the bat. "That's the triple play," says Vamsi Sistla, broadband analyst for ABI Research. "That's what every network that's sending data...