net neutrality
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A US appeals court has struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) latest attempt to enforce network neutrality rules, ruling that broadband internet service providers (ISPs) are classified as offering “information services” rather than “telecommunications services”. -
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has begun plans to reinstate net neutrality rules that were rescinded under then-President Donald Trump in 2018.
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The government of the Netherlands has set its face against lobbying by giant telcos to charge for internet usage.
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Global infrastructure fund Pantheon Infrastructure has invested $30 million in US wireless infrastructure operator Vertical Bridge through a co-investment vehicle managed by DigitalBridge Group.
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China's Communist Party is said to be trialling a social credit system that could see slowed internet connectivity as a possible punishment.
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Broadband operators in the US paid research companies to generate 18 million fake emails to the telecoms regulator and half a million fake letters to Congress, the New York attorney general is claiming.
Forthcoming events
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President Joe Biden has confirmed Jessica Rosenworcel as the person who will chair the US telecoms regulator.
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US president-elect Joe Biden has appointed Mignon Clyburn, a former acting chair of the US regulator, to his telecoms transition team.
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Three US Senators have accused four US mobile carriers of slowing down online traffic and effectively ‘throttling’ video services.
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New York’s attorney general is suing lobby groups because she is claiming that millions of the comments in favour of net neutrality in last year’s consultation were fake.
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New York’s attorney general is leading a legal attack on President Donald Trump’s ban on net neutrality, saying it is “arbitrary and capricious” and that it will have a “devastating impact on millions of Americans”.
