Major news sources are reporting that President Elect Obama has selected his choice to become the new FCC commissioner, and it’s Julian Genachoswski, an ex-Harvard law classmate and chief counsel to Clinton’s FCC chairman, Reed Hundt. With Kevin Martin, the outgoing FCC head, certainly no friend no the cable industry by launching probes into Comcast’s [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘FCC’
January 15, 2009
What course will Obama’s new FCC head Julian Genachowski chart amidst a choppy Telecom landscape?
August 21, 2008
Comcast reveals new traffic management to the FCC – Is an equipment order for Sandvine in the cards?
The New York Times is reporting that Comcast has announced to the FCC some details regarding how it will be changing its Internet traffic management policy before year’s end. Recall the the FCC narrowly decided to censure Comcast for unfairly discriminating against peer to peer filesharing, and ordered the leading cable co to detail within [...]
July 29, 2008
One carrier-friendly FCC commissioner votes no to more regulations
Just a few days ago, I wrote about how the votes for 3 of 5 FCC commissioners were already in, essentially determining ahead of the Aug 1 official vote tally that Comcast will get censured by the government agency. An editorial piece in the Washington Post from one of the remaining commissioners Robert McDowell does [...]
June 30, 2008
A win for the Telcos versus Cable companies in delivering pay TV
A final decision from a federal court confirmed an earlier decision by the FCC to allow Telco like Verizon and AT&T in the U.S. that will make it easier for these service providers to roll out TV services into new territories. One of the limiting factors for Verizon has been the ability to get “franchising [...]
June 23, 2008
Net neutrality debate getting more intense in Canada
Bell Canada has come under fire in recent months for instituting traffic shaping on not only the Internet connections it serves to its own customers but also on connections provided to Internet resellers. The action has raised the issue of Net Neutrality in Canada – the fact that Bell is discriminating against to peer to [...]
