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Is AT&T Shutting Down Metered Billing Trials?
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| We reached out to AT&T for confirmation,
| and while AT&T confirmed to Broadband
| Reports that they were no longer signing up
| users to the trial, they wouldn't
| technically confirm that the trials had
| been scrapped. "We are no longer adding new
| customers to the trial," says AT&T's Seth
| Bloom. "We are still reviewing the lessons
| and feedback we've gained from the trial so
| far to guide our next steps," he says. "We
| don't have any other plans to share at this
| time, but we'll communicate with our
| customers once we've decided how we'll move
| forward."
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http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/107012
Plans to cut off internet connections of illegal filesharers dumped
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| The government has backed away from its
| proposals in the Digital Economy Bill to
| cut off people who have illegally shared
| files online.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/22/plans-cut-off-connections-illegal-filesharers
Has the government changed its position on Disconnection? No
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| Please do not be confused by the
| governmentâs semantics. BIS and DCMS
| decided in the summer that they would not
| refer to âdisconnectingâ users, because
| that sounds harsh and over the top.
| âTemporary account suspensionâ sounds much
| more reasonable.
|
| Language matters. What journalist is going
| to run a story on âtemporary account
| suspensionâ (yawn)? This is why the
| government has chosen these disingenuous
| terms: itâs just more spin.
|
| What we still donât know is how long a
| familyâs internet might be disconnected
| for.
|
| A month? Three? A year? There is nothing in
| the Bill or any of the notes that we are
| aware of that might give us a clue.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/has-the-government-changed-its-position-on-disconnection-no
Recent:
Net Neutrality: A simple guide
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| Google's recently announced plan to set up
| trial fiber optic networks in the US with
| ultra-high speed Internet connections puts
| the long running national debate over Net
| Neutrality back into high gear.
|
| A hot topic of discussion and debate in
| government and telecom circles since at
| least 2003, Net Neutrality, actually
| involves a broad array of topics,
| technologies and players
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/in-depth/index.cfm?articleid=3028
Net Throttling Hasn't Stopped
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| Canadian Internet service providers fall
| short on net neutrality rules, testing
| CRTC's patience.
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http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2010/02/16/GeistThrottlingUpdate/
Ridiculous Arguments: Net Neutrality Would Mean No iPhones
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| I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
| I'm very much against enforcing net
| neutrality through legislation (too many
| unintended consequences) but I'm stunned at
| the ridiculous and totally bogus reasons
| given by those fighting against those
| regulations in support of their claims. The
| latest on this front is Stephen Titch, a
| policy analyst at the Reason Foundation (a
| group whose work I usually think is quite
| good), coming out with a policy brief
| making the ludicrous argument that network
| neutrality would mean no more iPhones.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100216/0412108180.shtml
Parties Lobby FCC on Net Neutrality
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| RIAA / MPAA
|
| The Recording Industry Association of
| America and the Motion Picture Association
| of America have an established love-hate
| relationship with the Internet. Perhaps
| more hate-hate. The recording and motion
| picture industries are still struggling to
| find their footing and adapt to a world
| where MP3's replaced CD's, and where
| streaming movies are replacing DVD's.
|
| Dating back to the early days of Napster,
| the RIAA and MPAA have lobbied for
| legislation and leveraged the court system
| to combat online piracy. In its filing on
| net neutrality with the FCC, the RIAA wrote
| "we encourage the FCC to stay its course
| and explicitly support, encourage, and
| endorse ISP efforts to fight piracy."
|
| EFF
|
| On the opposite end of the spectrum, the
| EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is
| urging individuals to join its petition to
| convince the FCC to remove language from
| the proposed net neutrality guidelines
| which provide a legal loophole for the
| entertainment industry to "hijack the
| Internet."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/blogs/bizfeed/187003/parties_lobby_fcc_on_net_neutrality.html?tk=rss_news
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