Several bills will be debated in the new Congress regarding Internet “network neutrality.” No such bill passed in the last Congress, but the likelihood of passage is greater over the next two years.

Network Neutrality (NN) has been in the news because the FCC is considering two options related to a neutral Internet: either regulation forcing NN, or an approach that creates a “fast lane” on the ...

If you are not sure what network neutrality means, you are not alone: Experts disagree about the meaning of the concept and about its influence on the future of the Internet. Many advocates of network ...

Network neutrality is the principle that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should not discriminate against different types of content on the Internet. For example: With advances in technology, ISPs ...

As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moves once again to establish “net neutrality” regulations, it’s worth taking a look at past work on this old debate—old in technology terms, anyway.

They finally did it. After six months of debate, during which it received over 23 million public comments (of which half may have been fraudulent), the Federal Communications Commission voted on Dec.

Reprinted with permission from Knowledge@Wharton. On June 8, the House of Representatives squashed an amendment that would prevent telecommunications companies from charging Internet content companies ...

In a new video advocating for network neutrality—a name for regulating internet providers like public utilities—the American Civil Liberties Union declares that “giant internet companies shouldn’t ...

Congressional consideration of “Save the Internet Act” is the most recent battlefront in ongoing legal warfare since the early 2000’s within what is called the network neutrality debate. On April 10, ...

Google clearly wants the FCC to make sure that other private companies’ networks are open equally to all Internet services. Now, it will be interesting to see if that applies to networks in which ...

As FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski stands in support of net neutrality, the general consensus is that Internet service providers won’t put up much of a fight for a mandated open wired Internet. The ...