The FCC voted 3-2 to pass the rules it had drawn up with the ‘help’ of telecommunications companies like Verizon and AT&T. In the ways of Washington over the last several months, almost no one is happy with the plan. And yet again the Obama Administration is being called to the mat. Well, AT&T seems […]
Net Neutrality Challenged/Postponed (Lost?)
The issue of net neutrality has vexed us at MKCREATIVE for a while, and most of our readers know that we have run a few stories on it. We return to the issue now because the de facto closing of the legislative calendar for campaigning has left the issue sorely challenged by mobile-phone companies and […]
‘Net Neutrality’ Is Complicated – And Is Heading To Extinction (Part II)
The responses to the tag-team proposal/ announcement by Google and Verizon yesterday continue to pour in – few of them favorable. Again we depend on the Huffington Post for providing a useful synopsis of reactions across the media world. We noted Craig Aaron’s reactions on SaveThe Internet.com yesterday, and he has weighed in with a […]
The Politics Of Broadband Distribution
Macworld.com (among other news and tech outlets) recently reported the latest FCC report arguing that the deployment of broadband internet service is not expanding at an acceptable pace. Moreover, expectations of the the speed of broadband need to be upgraded to match technology developments. According to the MacWorld article, “The report, required by Congress, is […]
A (Giga)Bit More on Net Neutrality Debate In Wake of Appeals Court Ruling
The decision from the Federal Appeals Court continues to reverberate within the news cycle, as debate continues about the viability (or mythology) of neutrality in the marketplace and how sternly the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should oversee the industry. For those of you wanting to hear a lively discussion of the issue, a bit of […]
Net Neutrality Loses (First?) Appeal
The MKCREATIVE blog has posted on issues of net neutrality, network infrastructures, and the impending Google gigabit network for some fortunate community in these United States. So our antennae were twitching as the decision/appeal concerning the FCC’s statute of ‘net neutrality.’ And the court has decided that the FCC’s statutes are unconstitutional. Here is a […]