Net Neutrality

Telecommunications

UK Government moves to classify high-speed broadband access as a "legal right"

The UK Government has just announced that from 2020, high-speed broadband will be considered a legal right for all its citizens, meaning service providers must offer access to any person that requests it

FCC chairman Ajit Pai has long had net neutrality regulations in his sights and the FCC he leads has now voted to overturn them

Telecommunications

FCC shoots down net neutrality: Welcome to the age of "internet freedom"

After a brief couple of years of Obama-era net neutrality rules, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has now officially overturned the regulations that blocked internet service providers from throttling or prioritizing certain packets of information as they see fit.

The FCC has just published its new order dramatically rolling back all net neutrality regulations

Computers

The FCC's "Restoring Internet Freedom" order demolishes net neutrality

A new draft order from the FCC is set to overturn the Obama-era net neutrality regulations and open the floodgates for internet service providers to treat traffic however they wish. Does this new order go too far?

Telecommunications

Net neutrality win: US FCC reclassifies broadband as a public utility, bans internet "fast lanes"

The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today voted 3-2 to uphold the principles of network neutrality – that is, to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to treat all web traffic as equal.

Science

Measurement Lab detects blocked or throttled ports

Google, the PlanetLab consortium and the Open Technology Institute today launched the Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open platform for Internet measurement tools, along with three tools for users to test their Internet connections - including