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Net Neutrality to be curbed in the EU
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| AS US REGULATORS consider new legislation to protect
| net neutrality, European citizens are set to have their
| internet freedoms significantly curbed.
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| The debate on net neutrality revolves around whether
| telcoms firms should be allowed to intentionally speed
| up or slow down traffic based on which service or
| application is being used.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1555933/net-neutrality-curbed-eu
Telecoms Package: Contact EU Reps now!
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| It is time to act again to protect Net Neutrality in
| Europe, as reported by the open letter signed by 26
| European internet civil society organizations.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2009/09/23/telecoms-package-contact-eu-reps-now/
Republicans Move to Block Network Neutrality
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| Senate Republicans react quickly to FCC Chairman Julius
| Genachowski's proposal to expand the Federal
| Communications Commission's network neutrality
| authority. Working on an unrelated appropriations bill,
| Republican senators push an amendment to deny the FCC
| funds for developing or implementing new Internet
| regulations.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Government-IT/Republicans-Move-to-Block-Network-Neutrality-438469/
Recent:
When Networks Collide: AT&T suddenly doesn't like Apple so much.
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| What I believe is troubling the relationship between AT&T and Apple is the
| upcoming auction for 700-MHz wireless spectrum and AT&T's discovery that --
| as I have predicted for weeks -- Apple will be joining Google in bidding.
| AT&T thought its five-year "exclusive" iPhone agreement with Apple would have
| precluded such a bid, but that just shows how poorly Randall Stephenson
| understood Steve Jobs. Steve always hurts his friends to see how much they
| really love him, so AT&T probably should have expected this kind of corporate
| body blow.
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20071129_003521.html
Related:
AT&T admits it censored other bands
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| It looks like Pearl Jam isn't the only band that has had its politically
| charged comments bleeped from concerts streamed from AT&T's Blue Room Web
| site.
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| [...]
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| AT&T quickly apologized for the incident and blamed the company that handles
| the Webcasting for performances on Blue Room.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759184-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Customers can sue AT&T, after all
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| A federal court in San Francisco has decided that AT&T's wireless contract
| is "unconscionable".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/20/court_slames_att_wireless_contract_clause/
AT&T takes another step towards filtered network with investment in Vobile
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| AT&T announced earlier this year that was planning to introduce content
| filtering of some sort for all video passing across its network. Exactly what
| AT&T was thinking remained unclear: would the company truly attempt to
| reassemble the fragments of peer-to-peer transmissions, then extract video
| from all sorts of different codecs, then attempt to match it-in real time-to
| some database of copyrighted works? Would such a thing even be possible?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071114-att-takes-another-step-towards-filtered-network-with-investment-in-vobile.html
http://tinyurl.com/3a998z
Hey, AT&T, What's the Value of a Closed Network Again?
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| Closed networks, its proponents maintain, offer a trade-off. Individuals or
| outside developers can't make any changes or improvements to it. But since
| the network and its applications are controlled at a single source,
| individuals are supposed to get an easier experience in which they don't have
| to think about the network, just what they're doing on it. Trust the network.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/hey_att_whats_t.html
How AT&T chewed up, and spat out Net Neutrality
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| In an interview with Business Week in October 2005, Whitacre said
| he thought taking over BellSouth would be rejected by the FCC.
| He also made another memorable comment that began the process
| which culminated in the FCC's approval in December.
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http://www.theregister.com/2007/01/10/whitacre_wins_big/
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