The internet, some decades old now, was birthed in part as a research project of the American military which did not want to be reliant on the Ma Bell telephone…
The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) announced today a propsoal to make a clean break from harmful, heavy-handed regulation of the Internet and in its place a restoration of the competition-oriented…
The EU’s net neutrality law has been in place for more than a year. Lacking real problems or bad actors to expose, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications…
During a recent speech entitled The Promises and Perils of Net Neutrality, BEREC President Sebastian Soriano stated his relief that the EU made a net neutrality law and that BEREC…
It’s no surprise that online protests for net neutrality are driven by slick marketing campaigns with state of the art database, analytics and content management systems. In contrast to the…
This research note reviews last week’s developments in Canada and Netherlands on net neutrality and zero rating. Canada’s telecom regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CTRC), issued a sweeping framework…
European telecom authorities in Sweden, Netherlands, and Hungary have banned zero rated mobile services, including music streaming apps such as Spotify. American car company Telsa offers electric cars with services…
An ambulance chaser is a lawyer who follows an ambulance to the emergency room, hoping to make clients out of victims. The proper term is barratry, overzealous prosecution of rules…
Much has been said and written about network neutrality regulation around the world, but there is little transparency to the powerful and moneyed forces which fund net neutrality activism. Many…
The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) is collecting feedback on its proposed net neutrality guidelines through July 18. While BEREC may claim that it is taking public…
Last week the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) presented its guidelines for national regulatory authorities to implement the EU’s Open Internet rules. While the EU may have…
Net neutrality and “open internet” regulation is a major subject globally. Some 50 nations around the world now have rules, and the number is growing. Given the speed of rulemaking…
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