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A Milestone in the Fight for Internet Rights
It’s official. The Federal Communications Commission published its order today lowering the hammer on Comcast for derailing Internet users’ Web access and then pretending that the cable giant was doing nothing wrong. [more]
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Comcast Appeals FCC Decision
Despite iron-clad evidence of wrongdoing and a bipartisan majority vote at the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast is appealing the FCC’s landmark order to stop the company from blocking Internet content. [more]
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AUGUST 20, 2008 - Today, the Federal Communications Commission published an enforcement order punishing Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, for blocking Internet users' access to legal online content and services. The order, approved by a bipartisan majority on Aug. 1, requires Comcast to stop its ongoing practice of blocking Internet content by the end of the year and disclose all "network management" practices. - Free Press
Download the Comcast Order from FCC.gov.
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AUGUST 1, 2008 - The FCC Order will send a message to entrepreneurs and innovators that their inventions will be able to work on any broadband connection, without first seeking permission of a cable or telephone company. It sets a baseline for unacceptable network management practices by broadband operators, and will help ensure that the broadband Internet can remain as an open platform for continued technology innovation and growth.
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The Open Internet Coalition represents consumers, grassroots organizations, and businesses working in pursuit of a shared goal: keeping the Internet fast, open and accessible to all Americans.
Our coalition speaks for tens of millions of Americans and spans the entire political spectrum. In Washington and state capitols across the country we’re working for policies like network neutrality and universal access to high-speed Internet connections that will benefit all of us, not just the large phone and cable companies who sell connections to the Internet.
The Open Internet Coalition stands for:
An Open Internet
Access to broadband networks should be open to all producers and consumers of Internet content on fair and equal terms.
Universal Affordable Access
Broadband Internet access should be universally available and affordable.
Quality through Competition
A competitive marketplace creates jobs, helps the American consumer, fosters innovation, and drives economic growth.
We invite you to explore our site to learn more about what the Open Internet Coalition is doing to promote an Open Internet. If your organization shares our goals, please join our effort.
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| The Case for Universal Broadband in America: Now! The failure to achieve President Bush’s 2004 goal of universal broadband access to the Internet "in every corner of America by the year 2007" has cost our nation hundreds of billions of dollars in added economic development and over a million newly-created high-paying jobs, according to a report by the nonprofit Center for Creative Voices in Media. |
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| More Americans are accessing the Internet over wireless devices than ever. Consumers Union and Consumer Federation of America highlight
the lack of price competition in the wireless data marketplace in letters to
Senators Kohl, Klobuchar and Rockefeller.
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