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One Million Moms Doesn't Like JCPenney Showing Happy, Married Lesbian Couple In Catalog
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 2, 2012 4:00 PM
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One Million Moms is back on JCPenney's case again, after the company failed to fire openly gay spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres. The problem for OMM this time? A happy couple in the May catalog made up of two women. Shock, gasp, etc. More »
Netflix CEO Rips Comcast On Net Neutrality
By Chris Morran on April 16, 2012 7:00 AM
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It's been a few weeks since Comcast announced that data chewed up by customers who use the cable company's Xfinity Xbox app won't count toward their monthly data cap. The move ignited a debate over whether or not Comcast was unfairly making its product more readily available than those provided by others, like perhaps... Netflix. Well, yesterday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings decided it was time to make his position known. More »
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Comcast Thinks Data Caps Shouldn't Apply To Its Xbox Streaming Service
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 27, 2012 2:30 PM
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This week, Microsoft is adding new streaming video applications from HBO Go, Major League Baseball and Xfinity from Comcast. And while announcing that new streaming video service, Xfinity's overlord Comcast say the traffic from the streaming video service won't count against Comcast's 250GB monthly data cap. More »
Beastie Boy Mike D Fights AT&T For Shareholders' Right To Vote On Net Neutrality
By Mary Beth Quirk on February 15, 2012 12:00 PM
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Sorry, but there was just no way we'd be able to refrain from referencing Beastie Boys songs/lyrics in this one: Michael Diamond, aka Mike D, has teamed up with two other investors, including his wife, to sabotage AT&T's attempt to not allow shareholders to vote on resolutions supporting wireless net-neutrality in yearly shareholder votes. More »
Verizon To Offer "Turbo" Button To Users To Speed Up Apps, For A Price
By Ben Popken on November 3, 2011 10:00 AM
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App on your Verizon phone going too slow? Just press the "turbo" button and get a temporary speed boost for $.99. That's the idea behind a new feature Verizon will be releasing to software developers in 2012. More »
Verizon Sues Over FCC's Net Neutrality Rules
By Phil Villarreal on January 21, 2011 9:45 AM
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Unhappy with the FCC's net neutrality rules that have yet to take effect, Verizon filed suit in a federal appeals court. in December, the FCC ruled that while wireless providers can throttle internet use based on what kind of content users are attempting to access, they can't block access to competitors. Non-wireless ISPs generally aren't allowed to throttle internet use. More »
FCC Ruling On Net Neutrality Is A Big Compromise
By Ben Popken on December 22, 2010 11:24 AM
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The FCC has ruled on net neutrality and offered up a compromise solution: ISPs can't throttle fixed line computer users based on what kind of content they're accessing, but wireless providers can. More »
Comcast's Letter To The FCC About Netflix Tollgate
By Ben Popken on December 2, 2010 3:21 PM
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Here is the letter Comcast sent the FCC after eyebrows were raised when Level 3 accused the cable company of setting up a effective tollgate to collect fees when L3 tried to deliver Netflix content to Comcast customers. More »
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Comcast Charges Toll For Netflix Delivery
By Ben Popken on November 30, 2010 11:00 AM
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The largest broadband backbone provider in the world says Comcast has set up a tollbooth, charging it a fee to deliver Netflix content to Comcast customers. "This action by Comcast threatens the open Internet and is a clear abuse of the dominant control that Comcast exerts in broadband access," said Level 3 in a statement. More »
Worst Company In America Trophy Mailed To Comcast
By Ben Popken on October 5, 2010 3:00 PM
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We are super-duper late in mailing out Comcast's Worst Company In America trophy so we decided to spice it up with a disco lightshow for the award and a nice congratulatory letter. More »
Ben Popken On NPR This Morning Re: Comcast NBC Merger
By Ben Popken on July 13, 2010 9:09 AM
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I was on NPR this morning chiming in about the Comcast NBC merger that's hurtling like a freight train through Washington (spoiler alert: not a fan). Here's the clip. At the end, the reporter says that when he asked Comcast about their coming first in our Worst Company in America contest, they dismissed the entire affair as a "cheap stunt." We take offense. A trophy that cost $30 and had to be air-mailed from Japan is not cheap. More »
Al Franken Hates The NBC/Comcast Merger More Than Anyone Has Ever Hated Anything
By Meg Marco on June 24, 2010 11:45 AM
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Former NBC employee and current US Senator, Al Franken, has filed an 11-page letter of concern with the FCC stating that he "firmly believe[s] that the ComcastINBCU merger should be rejected. The harms caused by this merger are significant and long lasting. No set of promises or conditions, no matter how well-intentioned, can sufficiently mitigate those harms." More »
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Is Comcast Choking My Bandwidth To Keep Me From Watching Too Much TV Online?
By Phil Villarreal on June 14, 2010 9:00 AM
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Gen fears Comcast is choking his bandwidth because he's streamed too many TV shows. He keeps getting suspicious messages that say his internet connection has slowed when he tries to watch episodes of Law & Order: SVU. More »
Wireless Industry Lobbyists Explain Why The FCC Should Back Off
By Chris Walters on May 17, 2010 1:12 PM
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The president and a vice-president for CTIA, a lobbying organization for the wireless industry, spoke recently with CNET about why they think the FCC should leave their members alone. The vice-president, Chris Guttman-McCabe, is a lawyer and as such his answers are useless. President Steve Largent, however, actually has a couple of candid moments during the interview. More »
Get Ready For Anti-Net Neutrality Ads
By Marc Perton on May 13, 2010 11:35 AM
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Foes of net neutrality are getting set to spend $1.4 million to air a series of ads against the Federal Communication Commission's efforts to enforce net neutrality rules by regulating broadband access providers as telecom services. First up: this peppy offering from Americans for Prosperity, that warns that the Internet will be the next domino to fall to the encroaching menace of a "Washington takeover." More »
FCC May Step In To Restore Net Neutrality
By Phil Villarreal on May 6, 2010 8:00 AM
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Fighting back against a court ruling that found the FCC has no authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks, the commission has proposed regulating broadband under rules designed for phone networks, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »
FTC Protects Your Privacy, But FCC Rules At Hoops
By Marc Perton on April 24, 2010 3:43 PM
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In a wide-ranging interview, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz spoke with NPR's On the Media about the agency's role in protecting consumer privacy, fighting back against deceptive marketing practices — and about Leibowitz's weekend basketball games with Federal Communications Commission chief Julius Genachowski: "Julius has been schooling me on the basketball court for some time. ... He's very crafty." More »
Comcast Issues the Smackdown On FCC, Net Neutrality
By Meg Marco on April 6, 2010 3:57 PM
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Comcast has won a key court battle as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the FCC lacks authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks, reports the AP. More »
ECA Responds To Membership Controversy, But Doesn't Say Much
By Chris Walters on December 3, 2009 11:30 AM
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Yesterday, ECA President Hal Halpin emailed Consumerist and other blogs a formal statement addressing the charges that the ECA is deliberately making it hard for members to break free. I'm printing the letter below, along with a summary of the key points Halpin makes and the issues that remain unanswered. More »
Is AT&T Behind Grassroots Groups That Are Opposed To Net Neutrality?
By Chris Walters on October 27, 2009 3:34 PM
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—>In the net neutrality debate, there are a surprising number of grassroots organizations (well, surprising to me at any rate) that have filed statements against the FCC's recent draft of rules. Matthew Lasar at Ars Technica just published an interesting article where he looks at some of these groups and tries to figure out whether AT&T is secretly influencing them, or whether they really do think net neutrality will hurt those they represent—frequently minority groups—in the long run. More »
