The Internet’s stunning growth, from its beginnings through maturity in 2005, relied on common carrier rules. (Blogmeister’s note: Even more than usual, this post reflects the views of its author and not necessarily those of Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, its other lawyers, or its clients.) The FCC’s latest effort at net neutrality rules is a … Continue Reading
If you were looking for something to do in your spare time for the next several weeks, good news! The FCC has just released its net neutrality order.… Continue Reading
Pushed by losses in the courts, FCC is now relying on Title II, Section 706, Title III as authority for increased regulatory control of the Internet.… Continue Reading
You have to feel sorry for the FCC, trying to write net neutrality rules despite a court order that pretty much rules out "neutrality."… Continue Reading
The FCC can either straighten up and take on a hostile Congress, or it can stand back and watch the Internet devolve into the profit-making tool of a few powerful companies. This blogger just doesn't see a third alternative.… Continue Reading
The D.C. Circuit has now heard oral argument in Verizon's appeal of the FCC's effort, dating back to late 2010, to impose "open Internet" rules on broadband providers. And now YOU can hear the argument, too!… Continue Reading
The Commission has received one - and, apparently, only one - petition for reconsideration of its Open Internet order. Could that slow down the judicial review process?… Continue Reading
If you're standing behind Verizon in the line to buy a Powerball ticket, take a look over its shoulder and be sure to buy the same numbers that it does.… Continue Reading
If you paid attention to our post yesterday, you won't be surprised to learn that the net neutrality order has now been published in the Federal Register, specifying an effective date of November 20, 2011.… Continue Reading
Whatever clarity the Advisory offers is likely to be temporary. The Advisory itself states that much of its advice will likely be superseded in the near future.… Continue Reading
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has tossed Verizon's net neutrality appeal as premature. Verizon will get another chance but, contrary to Verizon's hopes, there's no guarantee that the case will end up in the D.C. Circuit.… Continue Reading
Less than two weeks after Verizon filed a motion asking that its appeal of the net neutrality decision be assigned to the same panel that trashed the Commission in the Comcast opinion last April, that panel has denied Verizon's motion.… Continue Reading
Verizon is trying to herd the next round of appeals in the Net Neutrality proceeding back before the same panel of judges who slammed the FCC in the Comcast decision. Appellate litigation aficionados take note.… Continue Reading
The Commission is looking to launch a new Open Internet transparency front with an army of consumers equipped with software that will reveal to them precisely what their ISPs' traffic management practices are. Your job, should you choose to accept it, will be to design that software.… Continue Reading
We have combed through the FCC's 194-page Report and Order (and related materials) in the net neutrality proceeding and now provide a more in-depth look at the content and implications of the new net neutrality rules.… Continue Reading
With the ringing endorsement of only one Commission member, net neutrality has become the law of the land . . . at least for the time being.… Continue Reading
