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Two powerful Democratic members of Congress have called on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to consider reclassifying broadband as a regulated common-carrier service in order to protect Net neutrality rules and implement parts of its national broadband plan. The letter from Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Sen. [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia recently ruled that the Federal Communications Commission has no authority to tell Internet service providers how to manage their networks. (c) 2010, Chicago Tribune. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will take the first major steps toward implementing its national broadband plan next Wednesday, when it is scheduled to launch a rulemaking proceeding that would create a new fund for broadband deployment. The FCC is expected to vote on a notice of inquiry and a notice of proposed rulemaking that [...]

Comcast customers should reject a proposed settlement in a lawsuit filed against the broadband provider for throttling some Internet traffic, a critic of the company said Thursday. The proposed settlement, announced last December, should be rejected, especially after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled this month that the U.S. [...]

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission did not have the authority to order Comcast to stop throttling peer-to-peer traffic in the name of network management. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in an order Tuesday, overturned the FCC’s August 2008 ruling forcing Comcast to [...]

(AP) — A federal court threw the future of Internet regulations and U.S. broadband expansion plans into doubt Tuesday with a far-reaching decision that went against the Federal Communications Commission. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Google says it doesn’t want to be your Internet service provider; rather, it wants to make your ISP behave in a more Google-friendly manner. This is why, over the past several years, the Internet search giant has used its financial clout and the strength of its brand to make regular forays into the telecommunications industry. [...]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan released last week contains many good ideas, but it also leaves the door open to new regulations of broadband providers, representatives of providers said Tuesday. The broadband plan recognizes that private investment will largely pay for the broadband networks of the future, including the goal of bringing [...]

Google ‘s recently announced plan to set up trial fiber optic networks in the U.S. with ultra-high speed Internet connections puts the long-running national debate over Net neutrality back into high gear. A hot topic of discussion and debate in government and telecom circles since at least 2003, Net neutrality, actually involves a broad array [...]

Google has quietly chopped $200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One, meaning it will now cost users less — $350 rather than $550 — to cancel service on the smartphone. That matches Verizon Wireless’s termination fee for smartphones, now tied with the Nexus One as the steepest  return fee in the industry. [...]