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ISPs want lines flushed open: Supremes urged to reject FCC's stance on cable-plant access.(Policy)(Internet-service providers)(Federal Communications Commission)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court should reject the Federal Communications Commission's conclusion that cable companies do not have to share their high-speed data networks with competing Internet-service providers, ISPs told the high court last Tuesd WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court should reject the Federal...
Tags: cable, FCC, information service, Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2005-02-28
Good news ahead: Supreme Court seems to favor cable in open-access fight.(NCTA Preview)( Federal Communications Commission's regulations on the use of broadband lines)
Cable-industry lawyers say that they have a good shot at keeping rival Internet service providers ISPs away from their broadband subscribers. That prediction came last week during oral arguments in a case that could dictate how cable companies op Cable-industry lawyers say that they...
Tags: broadband, cable, cable company, FCC, Internet, Internet service, Internet Service Provider, service provider
Research articles 2005-04-04
Access ruling settles little: impact unclear from FCC's legal setback on cable data carriage.
WASHINGTON -- The cable bar has a new motto: Losing never felt so good. For the second time in three years, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for fire 9th Circuit has said cable-modem service, the cable industry's...
Tags: cable, FCC, Internet Service Provider, Microsoft Access, telecommunications, telecommunications service
Research articles 2003-10-13
Sens. Urge Quick FCC Action on AT&T-TCI.
WASHINGTON -- Two U.S. senators are pressuring the Federal Communications Commission to expedite its review of AT&T Corp.'s $48 billion acquisition of Tele-Communications Inc. Sens. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Conrad Burns (RMont.), in an O WASHINGTON -- Two U.S....
Tags: America Online Inc., AT&T Corp., cable, FCC, Internet Service Provider, merger
Research articles 1998-10-19
Portland Case Has Impact: ISPs Press On, Cities Deal.(agreements between local governments and cable Internet service providers)
WASHINGTON -- Deciding to wait for the waves to crash its shores, the Federal Communications Commission is unlikely to plunge into the choppy surf that kicked up from the court decision two weeks ago that denied local governments the power to regul WASHINGTON --...
Tags: agreement, cable, cable company, cable industry, cable Internet, FCC, Internet, Internet Service Provider, telecommunications, telecommunications service
Research articles 2000-07-03
Shooting for the open net. (Regulation).(consumer groups, independent Internet service providers push for cable broadband regulation)(Brief Article)
Independent ISPs, consumer groups and some of cable's rivals have bee pushing the FCC to impose some type of open access or non-discrimination requirement on cable broadband since at least 1998, when high-speed Internet service first took off. Independent...
Tags: broadband, cable, cable broadband, FCC, Internet, Internet service, Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2002-12-16
Last access act still months away. (Policy).(Brief Article)
WASHINGTON -- Cable-modem service is an unregulated information service -- for now. That's what the Federal Communications Commission declared two weeks ago. In so doing, it immunized cable operators from opening their lines to high-speed-dat WASHINGTON -- Cable-modem...
Tags: cable, FCC, Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2002-03-25
CTIA urges FCC to institute bill-and-keep now, PCIA asks for time to transition.
WASHINGTON--The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week called on the Federal Communications Commission to institute a bill-and-keep mechanism for reciprocal compensation. Reciprocal compensation is the money carriers WASHINGTON--The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week called...
Tags: compensation, CTIA, FCC, Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier, Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2000-12-18
Comcast asked to open ISP deal.(Carriage Agreement)(a court is asked to require the FCC to order Comcast Corp. to reveal the terms of its deal with AOL Time Warner Inc.)
WASHINGTON -- A federal court here was asked Sept. 8 to require the Federal Communications Commission to order Comcast Corp. to reveal terms of a non-exclusive Internet carriage agreement with AOL Time Warner Inc. The Consumer Federation of Am ...
Tags: agreement, America Online Inc., Comcast Corp., FCC, Internet Service Provider, streaming video, Time Warner Inc.
Research articles 2003-09-15
Fall broadband battle looms.
WASHINGTON -- Consumer groups are hoping to make off with the punch bowl at this fall's Federal Communications Commission broadband deregulation party. Later this month, the FCC will begin to review the record in multiple proceedings that are ...
Tags: broadband, cable, FCC, Internet Service Provider, phone, phone company
Research articles 2002-07-08
Ops again face forced access.(cable operators)
WASHINGTON -- It's "what if" time for the cable industry. Cable operators are facing a legal endgame that could require them to open their lines to competing Internet-service providers under regulations that have applied to the Baby WASHINGTON...
Tags: cable, cable company, FCC, Internet Service Provider, telecommunications, telecommunications service
Research articles 2004-09-13
FCC's Ness Applauds Cable Access Moves.(Federal Communications Commission;)(Brief Article)
NEWPORT, R.I. -- FCC commissioner Susan Ness last week applauded the cable industry's voluntary steps to provide access to a variety of Internet-service providers, claiming the effort validated the Federal Communications Commission's policy of allo NEWPORT, R.I. -- FCC commissioner Susan Ness last week...
Tags: cable, FCC, Internet Service Provider, AT&T Corp.
Research articles 2000-07-17
FCC Rejects Leased Access for ISPs.(Brief Article)
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a request that would force cable companies to lease channels to Internet-service providers under a 1984 set-aside program intended for providers of traditional video programming, acco WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a ...
Tags: cable, cable company, FCC, Internet Service Provider, Microsoft Access, petition, programming, video
Research articles 2000-02-14
BellSouth's call: wants FCC to end data open access.(United States. Federal Communications Commission)
WASHINGTON -- Call it a case of policy envy. For decades, the Baby Bells have been required to offer nondiscriminatory access to Internet-service providers, a Federal Communications Commission policy critical to the success of America Online WASHINGTON...
Tags: BellSouth Corp., FCC, Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2004-11-08
Kennard: Leased Access Not for Web Nets.
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission is unlikely to force cable operators to lease channels to unaffiliated Internet-service providers now that chairman William Kennard is on record opposing the idea. In comments to reporters l WASHINGTON -- The...
Tags: cable, cable company, FCC, Internet Service Provider, Microsoft Access, Web
Research articles 2000-01-24
ISP Bid Raises Basic Buy-Through Issue.(FCC will have to rule if Internet Service Providers can use cable networks)(Brief Article)
WASHINGTON -- Cable operators might have to change the way they market high-speed Internet access if the Federal Communications Commission rules that operators have to lease channels to third-party Internet-service providers, according to cable ind WASHINGTON -- Cable operators might have to change the...
Tags: cable, cable company, cable network, FCC, Internet, Internet service, Internet Service Provider, network
Research articles 1999-06-28
Cable Bureau to Get AOL-Time Warner.(review of merger)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard wants the Cable Services Bureau to take the lead in the agency's review of the $152.8 billion merger of America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc., FCC sources said last week. WASHINGTON -- Federal...
Tags: America Online Inc., cable, FCC, Internet Service Provider, merger, Time Warner Inc.
Research articles 2000-01-31
ISPs Argue for Access to Cable Backbone.(internet service providers)
WASHINGTON -- Some of the nation's largest Internet-service providers are demanding access to cable's high-speed networks - and the Federal Communications Commission is listening. In the years ahead, the FCC could end up issuing orders that make WASHINGTON -- Some of...
Tags: America Online Inc., cable, cable industry, FCC, Internet, Internet service, Internet Service Provider, Microsoft Access, telecommunications
Research articles 1998-09-14
Dial-up 'subsidy': temporarily permanent. (Policy).(a discussion of the need for the permanent subsidy for Internet-service providers)
In Washington, nothing is more permanent than a temporary subsidy. Twenty years ago, the federal government insulated information-service providers from a cash-draining regulation called access charges, a move that in time spawned the creation of 7 In Washington, nothing is more permanent than a...
Tags: broadband, exemption, FCC, Internet Service Provider, subsidy
Research articles 2003-01-20
FCC giveth & taketh. (FCC rules on universal service, access charges and price caps in the telecommunications industry)
In a series of well-publicized decisions, in early May the Federal Communications Commission FCC rendered its verdict on universal service, access charges and price caps - all of which had been awaited and required since Congress passed the Telecom In a series of well-publicized decisions, in...
Tags: FCC, Internet Service Provider, IP, IP telephony, PSTN, telecommunications, telephony, universal service
Research articles 1997-06-01
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