Saturday, March 10, 2012

It’s baaaack. Net neutrality to get its day in court

It’s baaaack. Net neutrality to get its day in court — Broadband News and Analysis: no Supreme Court decision until 2013? "FCC would turn from a letter-writing gadfly occasionally stepping in on behalf of consumers to a powerless relic of an agency as the web becomes more central to our lives."
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TeleFrieden: Metered Broadband and the Bellhead Way

TeleFrieden: Metered Broadband and the Bellhead Way: as in the US, more so in Europe (and poor Canadians get it rougher still)

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Friday, February 24, 2012

Korea telecom against net neutrality for video: Youtube, Internet TV

KT reviewing network fees on Youtube, Internet TVs | Reuters: ""We want to set a rule that we can equally apply to every platform operator that offers data-heavy content as those services threaten to black out our network. They should pay for using our network," Kim Taehwan, vice president of KT's smart network policy task force, told Reuters in an interview. "Payment could take various forms, from sharing a portion of advertisement revenues or profits to settling network usage fees. We are open to discussing that and are focusing our efforts on Internet TVs for a start before broadening our target to other data-heavy services such as Youtube.""

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