Net Neutrality Shot Down in the US

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Net Neutrality Shot Down in the US (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2011)


This week, the House Committee rejected a bill called the Markey Amendment (named after Democratic representative Edward Markey) to maintain network neutrality, allowing large telcos to charge extra for bandwidth usage or date types. Many telcos are looking to create a tiered network, one that has slow bandwidth and one that has high bandwidth for such things as video. Unfortunately, many companies are now afraid that this will allow telcos to restrict the low bandwidth tier to a point where development is so restricted, companies will have no choice but to pay up to move to a different tier.

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Network neutrality revived in the House

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060503-6738.html (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060503-6738.html)

Though attention has been focused on the Senate for the last few days, some interesting action is taking place in the House. Ed Markey has introduced his original net neutrality amendment as a separate bill (PDF link in article) called the "Network Neutrality Act of 2006." When he introduced the bill, Markey outlined its major points for his fellow representatives....