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By Laura Ryan
A federal court on Tuesday overthrew federal rules to enforce what is known as network neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should receive free and equal service. Now, with those rules on ice, Internet carriers such as Verizon and Comcast can charge websites for faster service—or even block some data from entering all together.
By Bryce Baschuk
AT&T Inc. will permit online content providers to pay to deliver their mobile apps and traffic to consumers' mobile phones and tablets without increasing users' monthly data usage, the company announced Jan. 6.
By Kate Tummarello
A House Democrat who represents Silicon Valley on Tuesday slammed a business move by AT&T that she says threatens the openness of the Internet.
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) took aim at AT&T’s new “Sponsored Data” program, which will allow websites and applications to pay for preferred access.
New Service Would Allow Businesses to be Charged Directly for Customers' Data Use
By John Eggerton
By Sinead Carew
AT&T Inc plans to give consumers options to save money on mobile data fees as soon as this quarter while offering sponsors a new way to entice consumers to use their services.
By Gautham Nagesh
Consumers have more choices for how to watch video than ever before, as this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is demonstrating, yet the industry's legacy players—particularly cable-TV providers—still have the upper hand.
By Bryce Baschuk
Some in Congress are clamoring to modernize the decades-old rules that govern the nation's rapidly changing video marketplace, targeting the broadcast retransmission consent regime in particular.
House lawmakers introduced competing bills Dec. 12 that seek to revise program carriage rules.