Analysis: Is Net Neutrality Good for Gaming?Wawro
Net Neutrality means that the government will – one day – control the internet. “Wait a second!” I can you hear you saying. “That sounds bad.” But almost everyone you know says that Net Neutrality is good. Doesn’t “neutral” mean that...
Why compromise is good--and where extreme policy goes wrong As for those who want tough neutrality rules on wireless broadband, I'd advise one to be careful what you wish for. The smartphone revolution has created dramatic new demand for wireless capacity, which is already bumping up against ...
if net neutrality was abolished then AT&T could ask for an additional fee for you to access Netflix, even though you already paid for the service. They would charge Netflix because it is a high bandwidth usage website. It costs the ISPs more to transmit high-bandwidth websites. ...
Net Neutrality – What’s Actually Happening? There have been cases where the ISPs were deliberately slowing up data from popular websites to extract money from those sites. Netflix, for example, is a video streaming site. And it pays a good amount of money to different ISPs so that users...
The FCC is currently working on drafting Net neutrality regulation. How will the court ruling affect those efforts? In September, the FCC's current Chairman Julius Genachowskiproposed making the four Open Internet principles plus two additional principles official regulation.The commission opened the iss...
In this week’s #TheLongView: Network neutrality is back on the FCC’s agenda, and unused London office gets Zucked.
The net neutrality debate, in short, is the discussion of whether or not Internet access should be considered a public service or a private one. Those who support net neutrality believe that the Internet should remain free and open as it is, and they believe that regulations would hinder the...
The ultimate win for net neutrality supporters would be an amendment to the Telecommunications Act, in which the internet is unambiguously classified under Title II. That, however, is unlikely to be attempted when the Democratic party is the minority. The ultimate win for net neutrality suppor...
party-line vote, the FCC redefined internet service as similar to legacy telephone lines, a sweeping move that comes with greater regulatory power over the broadband industry. And the FCC said it would step in to override state or local policies that conflict with the federal net neutrality ...