Sentences with phrase «public internet service»

Some of the ideas the participants came up with include public Internet service and consolidated city services, such as sewer and water.

The combination of the Pinco and Public Internet Services acquisitions totals approximately 750 kiosks and amounts to a net total acquisition cost of # 78,000, or # 104 per kiosk.

The acquisitions are related in that both Pinco and Public Internet Services Limited were subsidiaries of the same London - based company, Public Network plc..

«We now have an office and staff, which came with the Public Internet Services Limited acquisition, and we are deciding how to move forward from here,» he said.

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«[Today the FCC] seizes unilateral authority to regulate internet conduct, to direct where internet service providers put their investments, and to determine what service plans will be available to the American public,» Pai thundered, claiming that Obama had «told» the commission to do so.

Critics of the proposed FCC rules, which had not been made public as of the writing of this story, fear they will still allow large companies to pay for more robust connections to consumers, as Netflix recently did in a deal with Internet Service Provider Comcast.

In the case, National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, the High Court ruled that ISPs are information services, as the FCC had defined them at the time, and not public utServices, the High Court ruled that ISPs are information services, as the FCC had defined them at the time, and not public utservices, as the FCC had defined them at the time, and not public utilities.

Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

There was also the report recently issued by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre that found internet and other telecommunications services are unaffordable for a large number of Canadians.

Wheeler's new rules — which would prohibit blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization of internet content — would also reclassify broadband and internet service providers, or ISPs, as public utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.

The court ruled in favor of Verizon, saying that the FCC did not have the authority to enforce its previous order, unless it reclassified Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as common carriers, essentially public utilities.

«Reclassification, even if successful, would resolve no existing problem and would almost certainly end the massive private investment in Internet infrastructure that has gone on since 1996, when Congress created a light - touch regulatory environment for Internet access and related services,» Larry Downes, an Internet industry analyst and a director at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy, says.

Generally, an intranet contains a number of services and information that aren't available to the public from the internet.

«The focus of our legal appeal will be on the FCC's decision to reclassify broadband Internet access service as a public utility service,» Jon Banks, senior vice president of U.S. Telecom said in a statement.

And while many startups and tech companies that depend on open access to the Internet have cheered those rules, which reclassify Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as public utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, cable and telecommunications industry representatives have already filed several lawsuits that challenge the regulations.

Many WeChat users use the three - year - old instant messaging service as a news source, but some people have used them to distribute illegal information, «seriously undermining public interests and order in cyberspace,» said a statement from China's State Internet Information Office.

At issue are current rules that classify internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon as public utility - like «common carriers» under Title II of the Communications Act.

The public has vehemently rejected its current proposal, which would allow Internet service companies to enact «fast lanes,» but if the agency decides to enforce net neutrality and reclassify broadband providers, it faces an avalanche of lawsuits from phone and cable companies.

Last week U.S. President Barack Obama said Internet service providers should be regulated more like public utilities to make sure they grant equal access to all content providers.

With this investment, Kabbage — a company that combines machine - learning algorithms, data from public profiles on the internet and other factors to rate and then loan small businesses money — will expand its lending products and services.

Today the FCC voted to approve Net Neutrality regulating Internet service like a public utility, prohibiting companies from paying for faster lanes on the Internet.

In addition to GoDaddy and Amazon (both of which are internet service providers or ISPs), the John Does are suing the actual operators of websites that allowed the public to search for Ashley Madison users» personal information.

Like the voting machine companies, Internet voting services — mostly purveying their software in private or corporate elections — largely resist subjecting their work to public trial.

Washington, DC — Internet Association today announced that Senators Cory Gardner (R - CO) and Maria Cantwell (D - WA) will be honored with the 2018 Internet Freedom Award, Internet Association's highest recognition for excellence in public service.

Tencent sold shares to the public in Hong Kong in 2004 and is now China's largest internet community, offering services including chat, group messaging, news portals, and entertainment as well as e-commerce.

In response to public outcry over this situation, Industry Minister Jim Prentice's position was to, «leave the matter between consumers on the one hand and Internet service providers on the other» — effectively, no position at all.

With only 20 percent of the system working a month later, public utility companies can not restore regular water, internet, and phone service.

Action: Ditch the Internet entirely Who is this for: Fugitives and whistleblowers How difficult is it: Privacy doesn't get harder than this Tell me more: Public administrations can ask you to do pretty much everything online these days — and even if it's not mandatory to use their Internet service it can be incentivized in various ways.

Here in the U.S., the online music scene has a number of players such as Pandora, the Internet radio service that went public last month, and Last.fm, the long - running online radio service acquired by CBS in 2007.

Twitter's successful debut is likely to stoke interest in other up - and - coming consumer Internet companies such as ride service Uber, scrapbooking site Pinterest, accommodation service Airbnb and the payment start - up Square, all of which boast private - market valuations well north of a billion dollars and could go public in the coming years.

Though there has been no public release of a Whitepaper or prospectus, TON is said to be being pitched as a decentralised internet service that will utilise a veritable smorgasbord of blockchain - centred tech.

To be held from 18 - 20 January, 2010, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Manama in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the conference is open to anyone with an interest in the safety of children on the web, including Internet Service Providers, telephone companies, NGOs, charities, regulators, government departments and the public.

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

A renovated and expanded Southwest Regional Library opened in 2010 at 25,000 sq ft.. The library features free wireless internet access, public computers, printing and fax services, and meeting space.

How about putting Broadband internet service in some of state agencies that assist the public?

The New York State Public Service Commission is taking legal action against the parent company of a local cable television and internet provider, threatening a million - dollar fine and possible re-evaluation of its cable TV franchise deal in New York City.

Cuomo has seized on a recently approved state law that gives the Public Service Commission more regulatory oversight of the merger and is pushing the companies to develop plans that would expand rural Internet sService Commission more regulatory oversight of the merger and is pushing the companies to develop plans that would expand rural Internet serviceservice.

Lawmakers unanimously agreed to a resolution that encourages Verizon to apply to the Public Service Commission for a franchise agreement that would establish FiOS internet and cable service inside city Service Commission for a franchise agreement that would establish FiOS internet and cable service inside city service inside city limits.

November 19, 2004 - With 52 locations, mobile outlets and remote access via the Internet, the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library offers its resources and services to literally every resident in every corner of Erie County.

The House of Lords science and technology committee said the government is doing too little to improve security on the internet and risks undermining public confidence in the service.

It is expected to cover a huge range of issues including public service broadcasting, internet piracy and the operation of the telecoms industry.

However, government must also take care to ensure that public services are accessible to the right people — many of those most in need of them may not have ready access to the internet.

Instead of trying to fix a public service model fit for an analogue broadcasting world, the government should have examined how we encourage new models that will provide sustainable public service content in an internet age.

In 1998, the Library established its presence on the Internet with its website - a new gateway to the online public access catalog that included more than three million items as well as an exciting range of subscription databases and other valuable user services.

The members of the public were spurred on by an op - ed piece published on an internet news source that implied town officials had already made a back - door deal with another entity to run the shelter, and by a letter sent to other animal service organizations soliciting proposals by a woman who has long been an opponent of the League's presence at the shelter, ostensibly at the urging of a member of the Town Board.

The Public Service Commission comes to Syracuse this summer to find out what internet and cable access is like for residents of the city.

Today, Public Advocate Letitia James called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to protect Lifeline, a program that provides subsidized phone and internet services to millions of low - income Americans, including over 1 million New Yorkers.

Offering a history of broadband initiatives in Ulster County this past week, county Comptroller Elliott Auerbach noted a 2012 resolution supporting applications to the Connect NY Broadband Grant for broadband service to the towns of Denning, Wawarsing, Hardenburgh, and Rochester; a 2014 State of the County address request from County Executive Mike Hein to the Ulster County Legislature to set policy on «some important issues still facing Ulster County including Broadband expansion and improving internet access for county residents»; a request from the legislature later that same year «that the county executive develop a plan... and the plan should include a one year, two year and five year plus proposal for broadband expansion»; and resolutions and letters directed to the state Public Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster service to the towns of Denning, Wawarsing, Hardenburgh, and Rochester; a 2014 State of the County address request from County Executive Mike Hein to the Ulster County Legislature to set policy on «some important issues still facing Ulster County including Broadband expansion and improving internet access for county residents»; a request from the legislature later that same year «that the county executive develop a plan... and the plan should include a one year, two year and five year plus proposal for broadband expansion»; and resolutions and letters directed to the state Public Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster County.

In a letter to the FCC, Public Advocate James urged the Commission to reject a series of proposals that would significantly defund the program, and drastically reduce the number of Americans able to afford basic phone and internet service.

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