Sentences with phrase «neutrality for internet companies»

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«Those pushing for net neutrality think the world would work better if the Internet was somehow magically transformed into a public utility, like a water or electricity company, with the FCC and state regulators setting rates, overseeing investment, and micromanaging relationships between providers and customers,» Downes says, adding the result would be devastating to the smooth functioning of ISP networks.

Now that major cable and Internet companies (usually one in the same) have pressured the FCC to create fast lanes and slow lanes on the Information Superhighway — Google and Verizon requested net neutrality exemption for wireless Internet just last month — small businesses» online presence is in serious jeopardy.

Now let's say the net - neutrality order is repealed and Verizon can charge companies for faster internet access on its network (while exempting its services — it is allowed to do that now).

But the online protests also highlighted how the biggest tech companies, such as Facebook and Google, have taken a back seat in the debate about protecting net neutrality, rules that prohibit internet service providers such as AT&T and Comcast from blocking or slowing sites or for charging people or companies for faster speeds of particular sites.

The majority of the debate revolves around the FCC's proposal to eliminate net neutrality, which would allow Internet service providers to create multiple levels of connection speeds, charging companies for access to «fast lanes» — a move critics argue will automatically create «slow lanes.»

Internet companies are readying for a showdown with a Republican - controlled government over a policy near and dear to their hearts: net neutrality.

Advocates for a free Internet in New York and around the country have been holding hastily - called meetings to analyze a move by the FCC chairman that appears to threaten «net neutrality» by allowing some companies to offer higher speeds at higher prices.

FCC votes for net neutrality, a ban on paid fast lanes, and Title II — So the FCC finally reached a decision to enforce net neutrality by reclassifying internet service providers as common carriers, which puts them in the category of, for example, phone companies, and subjecting them to much... more >

In FCC v. Verizon, Judge David Tatel wrote that the FCC's rules on net neutrality for telecommunications companies do not cover internet service providers (ISP).

One of the most striking examples of the global power of the new generation of internet companies is their ability (and willingness) to use smaller and developing countries as testing grounds for their new products — in particular, for initiatives they couldn't get away with in the U.S.. For years, Facebook has tried to violate the principle of net neutrality by striking deals to make Facebook not count against mobile data caps (in India, Facebook's Free Basics program was met with heavy criticisfor their new products — in particular, for initiatives they couldn't get away with in the U.S.. For years, Facebook has tried to violate the principle of net neutrality by striking deals to make Facebook not count against mobile data caps (in India, Facebook's Free Basics program was met with heavy criticisfor initiatives they couldn't get away with in the U.S.. For years, Facebook has tried to violate the principle of net neutrality by striking deals to make Facebook not count against mobile data caps (in India, Facebook's Free Basics program was met with heavy criticisFor years, Facebook has tried to violate the principle of net neutrality by striking deals to make Facebook not count against mobile data caps (in India, Facebook's Free Basics program was met with heavy criticism).

Calls for a federal intervention already started; in a statement provided to AndroidHeadlines, the Internet Innovation Alliance repeated its support of the idea of an «Internet Bill of Rights» meant to «promote one standard of privacy and one set of rules that apply to all companies in the internet ecosystem,» thus relating the issue to the still - ongoing debate on net neuInternet Innovation Alliance repeated its support of the idea of an «Internet Bill of Rights» meant to «promote one standard of privacy and one set of rules that apply to all companies in the internet ecosystem,» thus relating the issue to the still - ongoing debate on net neuInternet Bill of Rights» meant to «promote one standard of privacy and one set of rules that apply to all companies in the internet ecosystem,» thus relating the issue to the still - ongoing debate on net neuinternet ecosystem,» thus relating the issue to the still - ongoing debate on net neutrality.