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Democrats revived efforts to reinstate robust net neutrality rules, with new legislation that would affirm the FCC’s authority to require that companies like Verizon, AT&T and Comcast treat all internet traffic equally. The legislation would classify internet service as an essential service, giving…

Supporters of vigorous net neutrality protections including Amazon, Reddit, Kickstarter, and the American Civil Liberties Union are gearing up for a July 12 “day of action” to protest FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s effort to relax the rules. Web companies will use their sites to call attention to the matter. Many companies…

The FTC would play a bigger role in overseeing internet practices, and the FCC a smaller one, in FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to scrap his agency’s net neutrality enforcement rules — a plan it posted today. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, on the agenda for the May 18 meeting, is designed to elicit public comment…

Internet companies are arming for a “bloody, high profile battle” to protect current net neutrality rules, Cowen and Co.’s Paul Gallant says, based on notes made public today from a meeting that company representatives had yesterday with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. The ex parte filing from the Internet Association — whose…

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and other commissioners went back through the looking glass today to testify at House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology — the third consecutive day of largely hostile questioning following the agency”s adoption of tough net neutrality rules. Chairman Greg Walden (R-Oregon) sought…

There was a lot more heat than light today from a House committee hearing exploring whether the White House secretly and  inappropriately directed the FCC’s recent decision to adopt tough net neutrality rules. GOP lawmakers battered FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler with questions that suggested he was doing the president’s…

Congressional Republicans probably don’t have enough votes to roll back the FCC’s recent net neutrality initiative — and then override a presidential veto. But they’ll register their displeasure over the next two weeks by raking FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and other commissioners over the coals in at least five hearings…

In an unusually passionate meeting that included multiple disruptions from protesters, the FCC today approved Chairman Tom Wheeler’s delicately crafted proposed rule-making plan for net neutrality policy in a 3-2 vote on partisan lines. “What we’re dealing with today is a proposal, not a final rule,” he says adding…

Comcast EVP David Cohen just made the comment in a remarkably thorough and thoughtful discussion of his company’s views about Internet policy and media consolidation at the first MoffettNathanson Media & Communications Summit. Bullet points: He thinks net neutrality advocates have engaged in an “almost hysterical…

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s leadership and negotiation skills are being tested ahead of a Thursday meeting when the agency is scheduled to consider his new net neutrality rules. He’s having trouble rallying fellow Democrats Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel to support a proposal that would limit “commercially…

Tom Wheeler had a bracing message for attendees of the National Cable Show being held this week in LA: When it comes to his new rules for Net Neutrality — which consumer groups complained would allow the creation of a for-pay Internet fast lane — cable companies should “put away the party hats.” His open Internet…

Will Netflix end up challenging Comcast’s $45.2B deal to buy Time Warner Cable? It didn’t look that way last month when they made what they described at the time as a “mutually beneficial” interconnection deal that involved Netflix payments to Comcast. But the streaming video company’s chief Reed Hastings cast the…