The US Federal Communications Commission is still quizzing Verizon on its recent proposal to buy spectrum from cable companies, and now at least one member of Congress has raised concerns as well. Senator Herb Kohl has written to both the FCC and the Department of Justice, urging them to examine...
"These agreements transform Verizon and the cable companies from fierce competitors into business partners." Senator Herb Kohl
The jury returned its verdict in the patent phase of the Oracle vs. Google trial earlier this morning, and the jury's foreman has now provided some insight into the group's process — including the fact that the deadlocked vote on copyright fair...
If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world, just behind India and China. And like any country, Facebook has a police force to keep things under control. 300 people have been entrusted with the responsibility of keeping a 900-million-person virtual society from itself and from external forces. How do you look after people who use the same username and password on...
VoIP provider L2Networks has filed what it claims is the first formal net neutrality complaint since the FCC's new set of rules went into effect last year. It was filed earlier this week against the Georgia-based Albany Water Gas & Light Commission, and was made in response to a criminal complaint. According to L2, Albany's director of telecommunications Ronald Skates has alleged theft of service, claiming that his company should be compensated for L2's use of its fiber-optic network to provide a VoIP service — L2 believes that this interference violates the net neutrality rules. Meanwhile, L2 CEO Kraig Beahn told PC World that the legal complaint was made due to just one customer who uses the VoIP service on Albany's broadband network.
In a statement, L2 explained that the complaint "has the potential to immediately create an...
"The... legal complaint, if successful, has the potential to immediately create an irreversible ripple effect." L2Networks
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