Submitted by acohill on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 08:32
Via the Washington Post, the FCC has indicated that broadband services will likely remain unregulated for the time being. The recent court ruling in favor of Comcast most likely brought the change in direction. An attempt by the FCC to regulate broadband service providers would likely bring many more lawsuits that could drag on for years.
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What are the pros and cons to
What are the pros and cons to network neutrality? I've been trying to look it up for myself but all I'm getting is a load of technical jargon.
The basic idea is that "all content on the internet is equal", right? Does that include filesharing and the like? If so, it sounds a bit like the debate that's still going on around our Digital Economy Bill.
What are the ISPs saying about it? Sky and Virgin came out in favour of the DEB and I'll bet you anything it resulted in a load of people storming online to compare broadband packages and switch. I know I would have done.