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Verizon Rebukes FCC on Net Neutrality

By james_fudge

This week Verizon decided to spread some holiday cheer by issuing a press release aimed squarely at the Federal Communications Commission about updating antiquated telecommunication laws to fit the needs of modern technologies. The company issued a press release this week titled "Congress Needs to Update the Nation's Antiquated and Anti-Competitive Telecom Rules," demanding new rules that the FCC should implement to better address issues and technologies related to the information here. Some analysts say that this new stance from Verizon makes the proposals it put together with Google earlier this year look reasonable.

Verizon called on the FCC to completely rewrite the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to support new broadband and wireless technologies, enable a single federal agency "clear jurisdiction" to enforce the law on a case-by-case basis, and have Congress rewrite in a clear way what the FCC has jurisdiction over. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on November 24, 2010 (boomark / email).