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Boucher Says No to Net Neutrality

Say No to "Net Neutrality" Rules
MSNBC - Why stricter regulation of the Internet is unnecessary and could discourage broadband investment Editor's Note: BusinessWeek Online published a viewpoint by U.S. Representative Rick Boucher [D, Va.) [see BW Online, 3/7/06, "Beware of a Two-Lane   

AT&T, BS Oppose Net Neutrality

Whitacre, Martin, Don t See a Need for  Net Neutrality  ...
TMCnet - Mar 24, 2006... delivery next generation services, such as IPTV (News - Alert) and VoIP. ... help stimulate innovation, whereas the  net neutrality  legislation now before ...

Net Neutrality Debate Heats Up in Washington

Net Neutrality Debate Heats Up in Washington
Broadband Providers Battle Web Firms Over Anti-Discrimination Rules

Telco-IP Update, 3/27/06
Verizon Communications Inc. signed a new retransmission-consent pact with CBS Corp. that includes video-on-demand rights for programs such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , NCIS and Survivor , as well as local news programming from its TV stations and the analog, digital, multicast and HD rights to programming on CBS owned-and-operated television stations.

Qwest and Cisco Jump into Net Neutrality Debate

Shifting Out Of Neutral?
Forbes - Two new players-- Qwest and Cisco --have jumped into the broadening debate over net neutrality. They join AT&T and BellSouth , which have until now led the telcos in an effort to sway Congress to let the telephone companies sell prime bandwidth for

Opposing Takes on Net Neutrality

You could hardly get more opposite views than these.  I was at the PFF conference when the claim that net neutrality was theft of property was made.  Needless to say, it left many attendees speechless.

Update: Tech groups urge Congress to keep net neutrality
( InfoWorld ) - More than 60 technology companies, consumer advocates and trade groups are urging a U.S. House of Representatives committee to seriously consider legislation designed to prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against competing services transmitted over their networks.        Amid  reports that the House Energy and Commerce committee was ready to scrap so-called net

Think tank forum: Net neutrality equals property theft
( InfoWorld ) - Laws prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or slowing service to competing Web sites or online applications would amount to government-sanctioned property theft, speakers said Thursday at a conservative think-tank forum.        Speakers affiliated with Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF), promoting its own bill to deregulate broadband providers, criticized net

Broadband Video: Standards Set for National Compatibility
Principles approved for attaching consumer electronics devices to broadband video networks.

My CNET Net Neutrality Article

CNet recently published my perspective on Net Neutrality in an article entitled "The next broadband battleground".  If you have some time, give my article a quick read, I would love to hear your perspective.

Ed Whitacre's turnaround: I

Ed Whitacre's turnaround: I know spin when I see it
ZDNet Blogs - Yesterday at the TelecomNext, the same AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre (at right) who has been calling the idea that his company does not have the right to charge extra carriage fees for high-bandwidth Web content "nuts," sounded like he's mellowed out . "Any   

Say No to "Net Neutrality" Rules
MSNBC - Why stricter regulation of the Internet is unnecessary and could discourage broadband investment Editor's Note: BusinessWeek Online published a viewpoint by U.S. Representative Rick Boucher [D, Va.) [see BW Online, 3/7/06, "Beware of a Two-Lane   

Net neutrality and market interference
ZDNet Blogs - In a previous post on the subject of AT&T's proposed merger with BellSouth , I suggested "net neutrality" rules might be a better way of dealing with the concerns posed as reason to block the move. This led to a response (via email) by Matt, a web   

The three tactics the broadband monoplists are using to fight net   
ZDNet Blogs - From comments made by Qwest CEO Richard Notebaert (that's him) during a keynote speech at Fall VON 2006 yesterday, we can see a "kinder and gentler" strategy emerging from the efforts of the telecom and broadband cable monopolists to oppose "net