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In line with the New Net Neutrality: Netflix Adds Verizon to its Peers
Posted by Unknown in Comcast, Discrimination, netflix, Verizon on Wednesday, April 30, 2014
After Netflix signed its first agreement with Comcast (see "Comcast and Netflix - BFF ("no preferential network treatment")" - here) ad reported "Netflix Reports Slower Speeds for Verizon" (here) it was reported that they are also in talks with AT&T and Verizon (See "Netflix: First we take Comcast, then we take AT&T and Verizon; How Much it Costs?" - here).
Sam Gustin reports to the TIME that "
FCC: The Next Gen Net Neutrality
Posted by Unknown in blocking traffic, Discrimination, FCC, Net Neutrality, Transparency on Wednesday, February 19, 2014
The FCC's had to do something after losing the Net Neutrality case to Verizon and the immediate effects it had (see related posts below).
Chairman Tom Wheeler [pictured], presented a new set of Net Neutrality rules:
"In its Verizon v. FCC decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuitinvited the Commission to act to preserve a free and open Internet. I
Netflix: "Unfortunately, Verizon successfully challenged the U.S. net neutrality rules"
Posted by Unknown in Discrimination, Net Neutrality, netflix, Verizon on Saturday, January 25, 2014
In the 2013 annual report to its shareholders (here), Netflix challenges the recent ruling on Net Neutrality (if nothing else works, "more regulation would clearly be requires").
Netflix believes that ISPs will not discriminate Netflix subscribers - and will actually work together with them on improving QoE (in order to go up in Netflix ISP chart? - see "Netflix CDN Customers have More Fun" -
Net Neutrality is "a Dead Man Walking"
Posted by Unknown in Discrimination, FCC, Net Neutrality on Monday, November 11, 2013
Are we about to see stronger Net Neutrality in the US?
Marvin Ammori [pictured], a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation and a lawyer who represents technology companies on internet policy issues, thinks not.
"Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge