Sentences with phrase «slow internet lanes»

Real estate wins with prohibition of fast and slow Internet lanes.

Not exact matches

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.

In addition to getting rid of the potential for so - called fast and slow lanes on the internet, as allowed by a federal court last year, the proposal would provide consumers with stronger privacy protections.

The final rules are likely to allow for Internet fast lanes and slow lanes, they say, which would give big cable players further power in consolidating their position in the industry.

The rewritten regulations prohibit Internet service providers, such as Verizon and Comcast, from blocking, prioritizing content or from creating fast and slow lanes based on a customer's willingness to pay for services.

This would bar Internet service providers from creating multiple levels of connection speeds and charging consumers and companies for access to «fast lanes» — a move critics argue will automatically create «slow lanes,» which will make it very difficult for promising new startups to get up and running.

Net neutrality, or the notion that Internet service providers (ISPs) and governments should treat all online data equally, has raised many important considerations on whether the Internet should have so - called «fast lanes» that prioritize content based on the ability to pay — and «slow lanes» for providers who can't afford the special treatment.

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.»

If adopted, the new rules would ban large broadband firms like Verizon and Comcast from purposefully slowing down or discriminating against different types of data, but they would allow content providers to pay extra to access a virtual Internet fast lane.

Trashing the Obama - era internet restrictions, despite widespread public opposition, will allow heavyweight broadband providers like Verizon, AT&T, Spectrum and Comcast to block or throttle content, essentially providing fast and slow lanes in a form of tiered service.

The Motorola Droid 3 for Verizon Wireless aims to be a top - notch business smartphone, but it's stuck in the Internet's slow lane.

«On the other side we have ISPs, broadband providers, the large telcos that connect us with the internet, trying to establish a two - class system where paying customers get faster, better quality internet whereas everyone else is on the slow lane.»

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission announced plans to dismantle net neutrality, potentially giving internet providers like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T free reign to throttle speeds, block websites they don't like, and carve the internet up into slow and fast lanes.

In a statement outlining what he'd like internet service to look like, Obama highlights four major points: internet providers wouldn't be allowed to block websites offering legal content, they wouldn't be allowed to intentionally slow down or speed up certain websites or services based on their own preferences, and they wouldn't be able to offer paid fast lanes.

The open Internet order, the F.C.C. said, will give the commission strong legal authority to ensure that no content is blocked and that the Internet is not divided into pay - to - play fast lanes for Internet and media companies that can afford it and slow lanes for everyone else.

While the rules are meant to prevent Internet providers from knowingly slowing data, they would allow content providers to pay for a guaranteed fast lane of service.